“They were nothing more than modern day pagan worshippers. Congregants of a religion built on greed and hedonism. The trading floor served as their shrine; the phones as their Holy Grail; and the clients as the prophets who would entitle them to choose between putting the next down payment on a Lamborghini or a Mercedes”
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“Mercilessness was not a bad trait to have in the corporate universe.”
“He was Lenin in a Lamborghini. He was Gandhi with a gun”
“For it is when calm clouds gather that thunder is made”
“Death, one way or another, would breathe life into a new order of balance today.”
“Maybe that was what millions could do-- nail a satisfied smirk to one's face.”