Brokers quotes:

Send

In the commercial real estate business, brokers spearhead major accounts. But they wouldn't have customers without the people who oversee construction. -- Roger Staubach
Too many people say to their brokers, I can't deal with this. Take my money. Do what you want. That's the worst attitude you can have. -- Maria Bartiromo
Those of Manhattan are the brokers on Wall Street and they talk of people who went to the same colleges; those from Queens are margin clerks in the back offices and they speak of friends who live in the same neighborhood. -- Jimmy Breslin
The job market of the future will consist of those jobs that robots cannot perform. Our blue-collar work is pattern recognition, making sense of what you see. Gardeners will still have jobs because every garden is different. The same goes for construction workers. The losers are white-collar workers, low-level accountants, brokers, and agents. -- Michio Kaku
Panic in Wall Street, brokers feeling melancholy. -- Scott Joplin
Wall Street. - The abode of the Brokers and the Broke. -- Carolyn Wells
A broker is a man who runs your fortune into a shoestring. -- Alexander Woollcott
I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race. -- Honore de Balzac
It's common knowledge that a large percentage of Wall Street brokers use astrology. -- Donald T. Regan
I just made a killing in the stock market -- I shot my broker. -- Henny Youngman
I do not respect the Dalai Lama. He's a political power broker. The Dalai Lama is not honorable to me. -- Ashin Wirathu
We've always had a dual role in the region - friend of Israel, and honest broker. We've given up the honest broker role completely. -- Chris Matthews
What kind of country is this where a woman can't weep her heart out on the highways and byways without being tormented by retired bill-brokers! -- Samuel Beckett
I told my broker that as long as he doesn't tell me where my money should go, I won't tell him where he should go. -- Leopold Fechtner
I'm beginning to wonder about my broker. Yesterday I told him to buy a hundred shares of A.T.&T. He said, 'Would you spell that?' -- Robert Orben
Full service brokers, in this day and age of low cost mutual funds and discount brokers, are really nothing more than machines for ripping off retail investors. -- Joel Spolsky
Invest less at the end of the month. Brokers tend to push stocks at the end of the month in an effort to match or surpass their previous month's sales. -- Nancy Dunnan
Up until 35 I had a slightly skewed world view. I honestly believed everybody in the world wanted to make abstract paintings, and people only became lawyers and doctors and brokers and things because they couldn't make abstract paintings -- Frank Stella
Once the brokerage house, rather than the bank, became the locus for American savings, that money would find its way into the stock market, because the broker was someone with a much higher tolerance for risk than the banker. -- Ron Chernow
I was a stock broker once. I think there is an absolute place for market investments. But they should never be the basis of one's retirement. They should be an additional piece on top of a basic, secure, guaranteed retirement benefit. -- Barbara Boxer
University administrators are the equivalent of subprime mortgage brokers selling you a story that you should go into debt massively, that it's not a consumption decision, it's an investment decision. Actually, no, it's a bad consumption decision. Most colleges are four-year parties. -- Peter Thiel
I have always been a critic of government policy. I was in government for more than five years. Before that I was a critic. Within the government I was a critic, pushing for reform and always at odds with power brokers within the party. -- Jonathan Moyo
My rather puritanical view is that any investment manager, whether operating as broker, investment counselor of a trust department, investment company, etc., should be willing to state unequivocally what he is going to attempt to accomplish and how he proposes to measure the extent to which he gets the job done. -- Warren Buffett
The Carlyle Group is the most politically connected investment firm in the world. The company has mastered the art of influence peddling on a global scale, hiring executives and consultants ranging from Republican power broker James Baker and former president George Herbert Walker Bush to foreign leaders like former British prime minister John Major and former Philippine president Fidel Ramos. -- William Hartung
Ask any real estate broker to name the three most important factors in buying a property, and he'll say: "Location, location, location." Now ask him to name the chief justice of the United States Supreme Court, and he'll say: "Location, location, location." This tells us that we should not necessarily be paying a whole lot of attention to real estate brokers. -- Dave Barry
The permanent power brokers of this city are the columnists. -- Hugh Newell Jacobsen
Up until 35 I had a slightly skewed world view. I honestly believed everybody in the world wanted to make abstract paintings, and people only became lawyers and doctors and brokers and things because they couldn't make abstract paintings. -- Frank Stella
Congressional staff members do have a considerable amount of responsibility. But in my experience, the loyalty of the vast majority of staffers to their bosses leads them to be honest brokers of information for the members they work for. -- John Harwood
I did everything in my power to give my brokers brand identity and clout in the market. I saw my job as parent to build them up and if I took care of them, then they would take care of their customer. -- Barbara Corcoran
I was a caddy once and I lost the golfer's clubs. Plus I don't know how to golf, so I was the worst caddy ever. Then I was a mortgage brokers assistant, so that was just carrying around a lot of files - pretty meaningless, mind-numbing work. -- Bryan Greenberg
Over the years, the technology of trade has changed in response to advances in the ability to communicate. From its origins on the streets of Chicago, the Board of Trade moved to a building housing 'trading pits' for the open-outcry exchange by brokers representing buyers and sellers. -- Dale T. Mortensen
On the New York Stock Exchange, all buy and sell orders are routed through a single 'specialist,' guaranteeing that most small trades can be matched directly. But most larger trades are delivered to the specialist on the floor of the exchange by human brokers, a system that big investors view as increasingly inefficient. -- Alex Berenson
With 'Black Rain,' I spent a lot of time with homicide detectives, and I spent a lot of time with different brokers on 'Wall Street.' It helps get the rhythm of the piece and the tone, and how overplayed or underplayed it might be. That's also the magic of movies: You get to hang out and live these different lives. -- Michael Douglas
You shouldn't trust the judgments of stock brokers picking individual stocks. -- Gary A. Klein
The reason so many financial advisors are called brokers is because they are often broker than you. -- Robert Kiyosaki
It is curious that Christianity, which is idealism, is sturdily defended by the brokers, and steadily attacked by the idealists. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I find it funny because people complain about Brooklyn becoming too hip, but would they prefer stock brokers or gunfights or something? -- Kemp Muhl
I was a trader for a company. That's different from the brokers who we sort of disdain as sort of just errand boys. -- Melvin Van Peebles
We in the press like to say we're honest brokers of information, and it's just not true. The press does have an agenda. -- Bernard Goldberg
Wall Street, with its army of brokers, analysts, and advisers funneling trillions of dollars into mutual funds, hedge funds, and private equity funds, is an elaborate fraud. -- Michael Lewis
I think that of most leaders in religion as power brokers. They give orders, in a sense, to an audience every week, and that's where the definition of God starts. -- Norman Lear
Washington was not just a city of marble buildings and smoke-filled rooms and power brokers, but also a town full of people who do care about each other, in good times and bad. -- Andrea Mitchell

Send