Wall Street

“The problem with a book like One Up on Wall Street is it tells the man and woman on the street, you can beat professionals at their game. Well, those professionals are, They're there, twenty-four-seven, thinking about ways to take your lunch money, right?”

“Now, in most walks of life, people buy more when the prices go down during sales. On Wall Street, they buy more when the prices rise.”

“If you're not well anchored in the leader you want to be and how you want to lead, You're going to be whipsawed by analysts and Wall Street and boards and activists.”

“The key is to create a culture where all points of view can be heard, and where people are comfortable enough to share them, and that's what we had at Campbell when I was there. We had people that we would go toe-to-toe, and we disagreed on some things, but yo…”

“JP Morgan himself warned a colleague, watch out for this fellow mayor, because if you don't, he'll end up having all the money on Wall Street.”

“I've always thought of Wall Street as the buyer of the product that venture capitalists create because of the eventual liquidity is either an M&A or an IPO. And now the price is being set by that group and that institution. So if I know what they value, even i…”

“We will let it simmer, she would routinely say. It was her standing counsel against deciding anything in haste, and John D. Rockefeller would use those exact words to outmaneuver and outweigh Wall Street tycoons and independent refiners for the next 70 years.”