Topic
Wall Street
street in Manhattan, New York, USA
Also known as Wall St
Key facts
- United States
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Topic
street in Manhattan, New York, USA
No public IJR answers mention Wall Street yet. As people ask about it and share their answers, they'll appear here.
“Charlie and I cringe when we hear analysts talk admiringly about managements who always “make the numbers.” In truth, business is too unpredictable for the numbers always to be met. Inevitably, surprises occur. When they do, a CEO whose focus is centered on Wall Street will be tempted to make up the numbers.”
“No man can control Wall Street. Wall Street is like the ocean. No man can govern it. It is too vast. Wall Street is full of eddies and currents. The thing to do is to watch them, to exercise a little common sense, and … to come out on top.”
“I think of Wall Street guys as the crookedest in the world...”
“The business model of Wall Street is fraud. In my view, there is no better example than the recently-exposed illegal behavior at .”
“The fall of Wall Street is for market fundamentalism what the fall of the Berlin Wall was for communism.”
“Holding the citizens of Wall Street to the standards of honesty which govern everyone else is, if one thinks about it, the very opposite of class warfare.”
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