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Stockbroker Quotes

If it was my business, I wouldn't talk about it. It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbroker's do that, and then merely at dinner parties. Oscar Wilde
With an evening coat and a white tie, as you told me once, anybody, even a stock-broker, can gain a reputation for being civilized. Well, after I had been in the room about ten minutes, talking to huge overdressed dowagers and tedious academicians, I suddenly became conscious that some one was looking at me. Oscar Wilde
It had come back to him simply that what he had been looking at all summer was a very rich and beautiful world, and that it had not all been made by sharp railroad men and stock-brokers. Henry James
The young man shivered. He rolled the stock themes of fantasy over in his mind: cars and stockbrokers and commuters, housewives and police, agony columns and commercials for soap, income tax and cheap restaurants, magazines and credit cards and streetlights and computers... 'It is escapism, true,' he said, aloud. 'But is not the highest impulse in mankind the urge toward freedom, the drive to escape? Neil Gaiman
The violinist must possess the poet's gift of piercing the protective hide which grows on propagandists, stockbrokers and slave traders, to penetrate the deeper truth which lies within. Yehudi Menuhin
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." Claude Pepper
David Heyman quote: "But I can't imagine Harry being a stockbroker at 35. That..."
But I can't imagine Harry being a stockbroker at 35. That doesn't really seem the stuff of 'Harry Potter'. David Heyman
John Wanamaker quote: "It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people..."
It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties. John Wanamaker
Jay Leno quote: "My stockbroker asked me something important today: paper or..."
My stockbroker asked me something important today: paper or plastic? Jay Leno
Percy Bysshe Shelley quote: "Is it not odd that the only generous person I ever knew, who..."
Is it not odd that the only generous person I ever knew, who had money to be generous with, should be a stockbroker. Percy Bysshe Shelley

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