Bache Quotes & Sayings

Thanks for ... what you remember. And what you don't. It's not nothing. It's a lot. — Ellyn Bache

Everybody's brave when they don't have any choice — Ellyn Bache

For seven years after college, I was a waitress at the Buttercup Bakery in Berkeley, and from there I got a job at Merrill Lynch as an account executive, from where I went to vice president of investments for Prudential-Bache Securities. I started my own firm in 1987. — Suze Orman

But some climbs you have to make alone. — Ellyn Bache

I have this theory," says Andy Stone, seated in his office at Prudential-Bache Securities. "Wall Street makes its best producers into
managers. The reward for being a good producer is to be made a
manager. The best producers are cutthroat, competitive, and often
neurotic and paranoid. You turn those people into managers, and they go
after each other. They no longer have the outlet for their instincts that
producing gave them. They usually aren't well suited to be managers.
Half of them get thrown out because they are bad. Another quarter get
muscled out because of politics. The guys left behind are just the most
ruthless of the bunch. That's why there are cycles on Wall Street - why
Salomon Brothers is getting crunched now - because the ruthless people
are bad for the business but can only be washed out by proven failure. — Michael Lewis

Why fight to the death when we can love eachother to death? — Sigurd Bache Hungnes

You move forward. You face up to your challenges. You don't retreat. You're young, and sometimes you'll wish you could. But don't. — Ellyn Bache

Why was I standing on the street when the window feel out of the building? Why did the bus run over me? Because it was my turn in the barrel, that's why. — Ellyn Bache

Odd, how in the afterglow of someone else's life, your own looks so much brighter. — Ellyn Bache

It's normal to shy away from illness and death. It's natural to gravitate toward laughter and life. — Ellyn Bache

When you're down, remember your triumphs. [ ... ] Sometimes you get in trouble and crash. Other times: just a bumpy landing. — Ellyn Bache