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What Wall Street is, they're market makers. Wall Street's business model is making money on velocity of money. They're a click industry. That's what Wall Street is. They make a lot of money when there's a lot of turnover. And they make a lot of money when that velocity is fast.


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LAURENCE STERNE I should be soaring away with my head tilted slightly toward the gods, feeding on the caviar of Shak...
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LAURENCE OLIVIER But what is the way forward? I know what it isn't. It's not, as we once believed, plenty to eat and ...
LAURENCE GONZALES Wisdom is finding the path that is best for all - considering the options, the positives and the neg...
LAURENCE OVERMIRE I often think that could we creep behind the actor's eyes, we would find an attic of forgotten t...
LAURENCE OLIVIER Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not ...
LAURENCE STERNE We ape, we mimic, we mock. We act.
LAURENCE OLIVIER 'Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause, and of obstinacy in a bad one.
LAURENCE STERNE The world does not pay for what a person knows, but it pays for what a person does with what he kno...
LAURENCE LEE What does brace mean, anyway? Brace. Such an odd word. It comes from the Latin brachium, meaning arm...
LAURENCE GONZALES In 1966, I attended Marquette University and graduated from the University of California at Santa Cr...
LAURENCE YEP I had never thought of myself as a dramatist, and, for really good technical results, the thought ca...
LAURENCE HOUSMAN I'd like people to remember me for a diligent expert workman. I think a poet is a workman. I thi...
LAURENCE OLIVIER When a man is discontented with himself, it has one advantage - that it puts him into an excellent f...
LAURENCE STERNE A dwarf who brings a standard along with him to measure his own size, take my word, is a dwarf in mo...
LAURENCE STERNE They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years...
LAURENCE BINYON I was born in San Francisco's Chinatown in 1948 but grew up in a black neighborhood. During elem...
LAURENCE YEP If two wrongs don't make a right, try three.
LAURENCE PETER "He shall not die, by God," cried by uncle Toby. The Accusing Spirit which flew up to heaven's cha...
LAURENCE STERNE Our armies swore terrible in Flanders.
LAURENCE STERNE It was a toast, not a roast.
LAURENCE MEYER