One of the really positive things about minority government is that there is the necessity to broker policy positions. What happens is you get a hybrid of what a single party might do. And I don't think that is a bad thing.

Is it not odd that the only generous person I ever knew who had money to be generous with should be a stockbroker.

A financier is a pawnbroker with imagination.

I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.

The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the family brokerage business.

Advertising is a racket like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.

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.

A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him 'At my age I don't even buy green bananas.'