Gutfreund John Quotes & Sayings

'Alien' asked ground-breaking questions about eco-politics and female empowerment. 'The Matrix' delved deeper into the concept of perception versus reality than perhaps any other film I know. But for some reason, we tend not to remember the significance of their writing. — Jason Reitman

There's so much happenstance, so many accidents - stumbling into something and finding it interesting and living with it over time and building on it. It's okay to work from doubt. You need to be willing to not know. — Ellen Gallagher

I want to bring softness and refinement to an urban, feminine wardrobe and to help the woman show her character and individuality through her unique clothes. — Catherine Malandrino

The media, the polls and our legislatures fortunately have short attention spans. — John Gutfreund

What Gutfreund said has become a legend at Salomon Brothers and a visceral part of its corporate identity. He said: One hand, one million dollars, no tears. — Michael Lewis

I've never read anything set in Belfast that doesn't involve the Troubles or something senseless over a flag. — Jamie Dornan

I thought that ending Glass-Steagall was a mistake. — John Gutfreund

Commercial banks are very good for certain businesses, like loans and guarding other people's money. They're not great investors or entrepreneurs. — John Gutfreund

I am more rich in goods than I am in money. — John Gutfreund

Shareholders share in the downside and not necessarily in the upside; that's the whole story. — John Gutfreund

You are permanent, but this life is not. — Chuck Palahniuk

Proprietary stock-index arbitrage is but one aspect of program trading. Arbitrage will take place whenever there is an imbalance created in one or more markets that are similar. — John Gutfreund

I never thought of myself as a king. People really want you to be their deity. They forget the fact that you are a person who has feelings and doubts. — John Gutfreund

The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

When dealing in the technology, it becomes a question of whether you overuse something. I think that's worse than having something technologically available to you and not using it. — Al Michaels

In the two decades after I left, I waited for the end of Wall Street as I had known it. The outrageous bonuses, the endless parade of rogue traders, the scandal that sank Drexel Burnham, the scandal that destroyed John Gutfreund and finished off Salomon Brothers, the crisis following the collapse of my old boss John Meriwether's Long-Term Capital Management, the Internet bubble: Over and over again, the financial system was, in some narrow way, discredited. Yet the big Wall Street banks at the center of it just kept on growing, along with the sums of money that they doled out to twenty-six-year-olds to perform tasks of no obvious social utility. The rebellion by American youth against the money culture never happened. Why bother to overturn your parents' world when you can buy it and sell off the pieces? — Michael Lewis

I have never been a social lion; I was misidentified as one because I have a very attractive second wife. — John Gutfreund

I don't have many regrets. I regret mistakes, particularly those that damage other people, and we've all made some of those. But I'm not sad about change. — John Gutfreund

People in Philadelphia are a world apart from New York. They're very different from people in the New York scene. The New York scene wants your visibility and wants your money. — John Gutfreund

I need you to love me the same way
the moon orbits around the earth,
without intention to stop.

"Confessing the heart — Alaska Gold