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Quotes About Brokers

The power brokers of factory farming know that their business model depends on consumers not being able to see (or hear about) what they do.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Retail investors who have buying shares in last 10 months from the recommendation tips of news channels, brokers and fintech youtubers are all being fooled as these small investors are in big losses to the tune of 80-150% while those channels have got lakhs of rupees in commissions
~ Abhute Bahety
My parents worked as brokers at Oppenheimer securities. They managed to finagle me a job.
~ Steve Eisman
Those of Manhattan are the brokers on Wall Street and they talk of people who went to the same colleges; those from Queens are margin clerks in the back offices and they speak of friends who live in the same neighborhood.
~ Jimmy Breslin
With 'Black Rain,' I spent a lot of time with homicide detectives, and I spent a lot of time with different brokers on 'Wall Street.' It helps get the rhythm of the piece and the tone, and how overplayed or underplayed it might be. That's also the magic of movies: You get to hang out and live these different lives.
~ Michael Douglas
They had a much more fundamental problem with the market: greed. Market motives were held to be inherently corrupt. The moment that greed was validated and unlimited profit was considered a perfectly viable end in itself, this political, magical element became a genuine problem, because it meant that even those actors—the brokers, stock-jobbers, traders—who effectively made the system run had no convincing loyalty to anything, even to the system itself.
~ David Graeber
I think that of most leaders in religion as power brokers. They give orders, in a sense, to an audience every week, and that's where the definition of God starts.
~ Norman Lear
I was a caddy once and I lost the golfer's clubs. Plus I don't know how to golf, so I was the worst caddy ever. Then I was a mortgage brokers assistant, so that was just carrying around a lot of files - pretty meaningless, mind-numbing work.
~ Bryan Greenberg
It's common knowledge that a large percentage of Wall Street brokers use astrology.
~ Donald T. Regan
For bankers, lawyers, accountants, brokers and company formation agents looking to score big, the only thing standing in their way has been "Know your customer" (KYC), the lame excuse for a sure fire way to disrupt the business of making money by moving money.
~ Jeffrey Robinson
6.?Pay your brokers well: the power of good advice
~ Robert T. Kiyosaki
Pay your brokers well: the power of good advice Sometimes
~ Robert T. Kiyosaki
Copyright is not the thing that makes artists money, it's only for their brokers and distributors.
~ Peter Sunde
I don't want to negotiate with the power brokers in Washington; I want to tear them down.
~ Cenk Uygur
Both Rockefeller and Archbold favored scrapping their former system of operating through European brokers and instead launching their own marketing subsidiaries.
~ Ron Chernow
A trader, in addition to studying basic conditions, remembering market precedents and keeping in mind the psychology of the outside public as well as the limitations of his brokers, must also know himself and provide against his own weaknesses. There is no need to feel anger over being human.
~ Edwin Lefevre
demand imbalances. He believed that stories about speculators' raids were essentially ghost stories that brokers told clients to keep them in the dark
~ Edwin Lefevre
Because they mark all their assets to market and live in constant fear of margin calls from their brokers, hedge funds generally monitor risk better and recognize setbacks faster than rivals:
~ Sebastian Mallaby
In the commercial real estate business, brokers spearhead major accounts. But they wouldn't have customers without the people who oversee construction.
~ Roger Staubach
by the way, you'll never hear them referred to as "brokers." They are called registered representatives, financial advisors, wealth advisors, vice president of this, that, or the other thing.
~ Anthony Robbins
Transaction Costs. Transaction costs are a broad, sweeping category and can be broken down further into categories such as brokerage commissions, market impact costs (the cost of moving the market as mutual funds trade massive market-moving positions), and spread costs (the difference between the bid-and-ask or the buy-and-sell price of a stock).
~ Anthony Robbins
People who invest make money for themselves; people who speculate make money for their brokers.
~ Benjamin Graham
Insurance brokers make way too much money for the value they provide.
~ Parker Conrad
We discovered, to give one example, that our client's three top brokers handled the 10 biggest accounts. By sharing these big accounts out among more brokers, and by dedicating one senior and one junior broker to each of the three largest customers, we actually increased total sales from these accounts. Rather than divide up the pie more fairly, we increased the size of the pie. Thus, 80/20 gave us a jump-start in solving the client's problem.
~ Ethan M. Rasiel