Finance · Skopia

Quotes

5

Owe your banker 1,000 and you are at his mercy; owe him 1 million and the position is reversed.

John Maynard Keynes

1945

★ 4.5

Film · Comedy (film) · Comedy

Think big, think positive, never show any sign of weakness. Always go for the throat. Buy low, sell high. Fear? That's the other guy's problem. Nothing you have ever experienced will prepare you for the unbridled carnage you are about to witness. Superbowl, The World Series—they don't know what pressure is. In this building, it's either kill or be killed. You make no friends in the pits and you take no prisoners. One minute you're up half a million in soybeans and the next, boom, your kids don't go to college and they've repossessed your Bentley. Are you with me?

Louis Winthorpe III

Trading Places · 1983

★ 3.5

Film · Drama (film) · Drama

It's not a question of enough, pal. It's a zero sum game, somebody wins, somebody loses. Money itself isn't lost or made, it's simply transferred from one perception to another.

Wall Street · 1987

★ 1.9

Religious literature · Economic literature

To take usury is contrary to Scripture; it is contrary to Aristotle; it is contrary to nature, for it is to live without labour; it is to sell time, which belongs to God, for the advantage of wicked men; it is to rob those who use the money lent, and to whom, since they make it profitable, the profits should belong.

1926

★ 1.7

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Books

5

Barbarians at the Gate

Bryan Burrough and John Helyar

1989★ 6.4

Liar's Poker

1989★ 5.6

The House of Morgan

1990★ 5.3

The Big Short

2010★ 4.7

Devil Take the Hindmost

Edward Chancellor

1999★ 4.6