Gutfreund Salomon Quotes & Sayings

I always think one ought to be grateful to an author if one has liked even a small bit of a book. — Anthony Powell

The parental predisposition to love prevails in the most harrowing of circumstances. — Andrew Solomon

A child's kiss is magic. Why else would they be so stingy with them? — Harvey Fierstein

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

Suddenly Hal burst through the nearby trees and came to an abrupt halt when he saw her. "Cassie, are you hurt?"
He asked it so casually, as if he came upon women being held at sword point by nude men all the time. — Donna Grant

Brackets come in various shapes, types and names:
1 round brackets (which we call brackets, and the Americans call parentheses)
2 square brackets [which we call square brackets, and the Americans call brackets] — Lynne Truss

The happiest moment will be those moments when you give yourself in the service of others. — Debasish Mridha

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

Afterward, I remember, General Roosevelt said to me, Now, you see, if you think you can, or somebody who believes in you thinks you can, why, then you can! — Norman Vincent Peale

The world is a mountain, in which your words are echoed back to you. — Rumi