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Quotes About Insider trading

Significant officials at publicly traded companies are casually and cavalierly engaged in insider trading. Because insider trading has as one of its elements communication, it doesn't take rocket science to realize it's nice to have the communication on tape.
~ Preet Bharara
The lesson, to avoid the hot tips of the insiders with a vengeance, is passed along fervently
~ James Quinn
People with 401(k)s need to be very conservative. Picking bottoms should be for insiders and traders.
~ Rick Santelli
Federal authorities have informed Martha Stewart's lawyers she will be indicted for her role in the ImClone insider trading scandal. Good news for Martha - stripes are back in this year.
~ Craig Kilborn
Insider trading by hedge funds has a long and distinguished history, dating to the days when people didn't know that there was such a thing as a hedge fund.
~ Gary Weiss
It's just I finally get what revolution means. It's maximum volatility with no hedging. And it's insider trading too! Because, since I know in advance you're going to default your people, I can buy put options up the wazoo before the IPPI goes down! It's totally illegal! I finally get why revolution is illegal.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
Rogers and William Rockefeller had lured investors with the promise of their own involvement, but they dumped stock soon after it was issued.
~ Ron Chernow
Where the grifter is shameless, the grafter shrinks from exposure, which could only endanger the racket. He is greedy but not creatively ambitious. He toils in mundane self-dealing, insider trading, bribe taking, witness tampering, and other forms of workaday corruption.
~ Jacob Weisberg
Securities fraud generally and insider trading in particular should be eminently deterrable crimes.
~ Preet Bharara
Significant officials at publicly traded companies are casually and cavalierly engaged in insider trading. Because insider trading has as one of its elements communication, it doesn't take rocket science to realize it's nice to have the communication on tape.
~ Preet Bharara
I spoke bluntly about what I had seen in a little over a year as United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York. To the apparent surprise of many in the room, I observed publicly that insider trading appeared to be rampant.
~ Preet Bharara
Never play tips from "insiders." They can't see the forest for the trees.
~ Bernard Baruch
Insider trading tells everybody at precisely the wrong time that everything is rigged, and only people who have a billion dollars and have access to and are best friends with people who are on boards of directors of major companies - they're the only ones who can make a true buck.
~ Preet Bharara
Anybody who plays the stock market not as an insider is like a man buying cows in the moonlight.
~ Daniel Drew
Crook stock brokers had prior information that stock market will spurt up in the last 45 minutes of trading session therefore they had shut down their terminal function for that period so that traders can't make any profit. SBI securities had closed its server today
~ Lakshheish M Patel
Insider trading is hard to prove. To be convicted, a person must have bought or sold a stock based on material information that is both unknown to the general public and likely to have had an important effect on a company's stock price.
~ Alex Berenson
In some respects, inside information is a form of financial steroid. It is unfair: it is offensive; it is unlawful; and it puts a black mark on the entire enterprise.
~ Preet Bharara
Everything is competing to show its good will. Things tend irresistibly towards perfection, effusiveness, reconciliation. Fortunately, nothing is ever perfect, thanks to Dostoevsky's 'unspeakable little demon ... that evil spirit that prompts to murder and scorn.' Everything tends irresistibly towards transparency. However, there remains a glimmer of secrecy - a clandestine dust-breeding that is mostly useless, an umbilical mirage, insider trading, but secret all the same.
~ Jean Baudrillard
Do as others do, not as they say. Sometimes, what people tell you to do with stocks is not as revealing as what people are actually doing. This is why I like to look at company insiders before I buy or sell a particular stock.
~ Unknown
Unfortunately, from what I can see from my vantage point as the U.S. Attorney here, illegal insider trading is rampant and may even be on the rise.
~ Preet Bharara
All the good work in the world will not compensate for the damage that a single facet of the business, or a rogue individual, can do. Insider trading, environmental damage, human-rights violations, and opportunistic practices erode trust and result in net negative impact.
~ Punit Renjen
to wall cross [where investors agree to receive nonpublic information, keep it confidential, and not trade on it] every
~ Unknown
Share prices will be now artificially jacked up to a big high by inside operators as interest of common public in stock market is waning. Especially Bank shares
~ Unknown
Timepass Buying and selling of shares in stock market is happening these days only amongst brokers and insiders because retail investors are hardly there as they have lost their interest despite seeing share price going up
~ Unknown