“It appears to me that no one has learned a thing; that Wall Street is still operating as if 2008 never happened.” IfsStillsHappenedStreetsWall Author:Collin Peterson
“The art of investing is not about figuring out what has already happened. It’s about anticipating the futureand creating the future that others will read about in The Wall Street Journal.” ArtHappenedStreetsWallCreatingInvestingJournalWall Street JournalCreating The Future Author:Joshua Rogers
“I did Wall Street, and then everything that happened with An Education took me up until March. I didn't want to work during that because there was just so much stuff. I didn't realize you had to go to so many parties. It was a nightmare! I had to go to all these parties! The glamour!” WantStuffRealizingPartyHappenedStreetsWallNightmareMarchGlamour Author:Carey Mulligan
“Nothing important on Wall Street can be counted on to occur exactly in the same way as it happened before.” WayImportantHappenedStreetsWallInvesting Book:The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel Source: The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel
“If you knew everyone's story, you would love them. You can't really hate anyone if you know everything that happened to them between their birth and now; why they became the way they became; why they have walls up or down. If you truly know someone, you'd get it.” IfsKnowsWayStoriesHateHappenedWallBirthWalls Up Author:Emma Stone
“Also, having grown up in England, you walk around London, you're passing relics that are a thousand years old - the wall of London is a thousand years old. You don't talk about it, it's part of your everyday life. The idea that people are in these environments and talking about the past and what happened, it's irrelevant. It's all about living and in this world it was about surviving.” PeopleWorldYearsIdeasPastWalksTalkingEnvironmentHappenedThis WorldWallThousandEnglandEverydayLondonPassingPassingsThousand YearsEveryday LifeIrrelevantSurvivingOld YouRelics Author:Miles Millar
“The fall of the Berlin Wall really demonstrated beyond the shadow of a doubt that there was a bad system, and what subsequently happened in the Soviet Union, that that system was a failure.” FallDoubtHappenedWallShadowUnionsSovietSoviet UnionBerlinBerlin Wall Author:Milton Friedman
“There is nothing new in Wall Street. There can't be because speculation is as old as the hills. Whatever happens in the stock market today has happened before and will happen again.” HappensTodayHappenedStreetsWallHillsSpeculationWhatever HappensNothing New Author:Jesse Lauriston Livermore
“I think what happened with Brandy [Burre]is what happens with a lot of people. You make these decisions for comfort and stability, and then eventually those same things that are comforting and stable end up putting walls around you that you didn't expect.” PeopleThinkingEndsHappensDecisionHappenedWallComfortStabilityStableComfortingBrandy Author:Robert Greene