Edwin Valero Quotes & Sayings

As I gather my thoughts here in order to get to the point, I am reminded of a joke Zafar made when he was still in banking. I say joke, but Zafar was always rather serious about banking and often talked about accountability, as he called it. This stuff is so esoteric, he once said, that the only people who understand it are in the business. What about regulators? I asked. Regulators, he replied, have one eye on the revolving door. Academics make money teaching traders their latest research, and politicians don't know their arses from their elbows. Can you imagine the people on a march against finance? The guy on a megaphone shouting: What do we want? And everyone answering: Specific curbs on short selling in certain circumstances. When do we want it? In phases and at appropriate times. That's the joke. It was funny at the time. — Zia Haider Rahman

Well, this awkward.' -McKenna — J.C. Buchanan

We all covet wealth, but not its perils. — Jean De La Bruyere

Well, I'd love to make a decision like that, but I'm not sure how I could change my life. — Tony Robbins

The last fight for the white metal is to be made here in this country and in this House, my friends. — Richard Parks Bland