Rejection. The love language of the trading floor.
Really f***ing hurts to lose. Chips away pieces of you each time. Pieces you don’t get back. And it leaves you with no choice but to go forward incomplete.
People without self-doubt should never put themselves in a position of complete power.
Opportunity is not when we take what’s left over. Opportunity is when we take what we want.
Only true fortitude will get the job done.
Only rich people get embarrassed by money talk. The rest of us get embarrassed because we don’t have any money.[to Wendy]
One thing that I’ve learned about how to make my people more effective is to let them stretch. I won’t lose you if I encourage you to take leaps.[to Wendy]
One has the greatest respect for one’s fiercest adversary.
Nothing ruins a magic trick more than knowing how it works.
Nothing is inarguable. That’s why I continue to thrive.
Nobody makes billions of dollars pitching underhand.
No one can make you love anything, or stop you from loving what you want to.[to Ben]