Investment Banking Quotes

“When money is pooled together, it has a greater impact. A million dollars has more impact than one hundred thousand dollars. One hundred ETH has more impact than ten ETH. The more money, the greater the impact.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

“Don't wait for better Investment options, Invest and then wait for better time.”
― Ankit Samrat

“Those who say don't know, those who know don't say”
― Michael Lewis

“In order for capitalism to evolve from its current toxic expression, I propose the value of international currencies be tied to an Index of Human Productive Output. The emphasis being on human productivity not inanimate machines and virtual assets created by the mirage of the investment banker”
― Said Elias Dawlabani, MEMEnomics: The Next Generation Economic System

“It's good to have a special price to pay for the future and it will pay you in return, in the exact way you would wish to be paid.”
― Oscar Auliq-Ice

“At the lowest level of the investment banking hierarchy are the analysts. To find this young talent, the I-banks send their manicured young bankers out to the Whartons, Harvards and Princetons of the world to roll out the red carpet for the top undergraduates and begin the process of destroying whatever noble ideals the youngsters have left.”
― John Rolfe, Monkey Business: Swinging Through the Wall Street Jungle

“I make 2+2=5, and I get to keep the remaining 1 that’s not really there. I truly am a Master of the Universe. I don’t just do “God’s work,” as our CEO once put it, it’s more like I’ve actually become a god myself.”
― A.D. Aliwat, Alpha

“A good way to figure out how likely it is that the directors are sucking money out of a company is to draw a chart with each director's name in a box. Read through the Management section, and each time you identify a professional or personal connection between two directors, connect their boxes with a line. If you also happen to know about other relationships between directors, for instance one director is married to the other director's daughter, or one director is an old college buddy of another director, you can draw a line in there as well. If, upon completion, the chart looks like a spider web then hold on to your wallet. ”
― Peter Troob, Monkey Business: Swinging Through the Wall Street Jungle

“The associates are the Cro-Magnon men. They live in caves, have trouble walking upright, and have a lot of hair on their backs. Usually, they communicate by grunting. Those are the associates. Finally, there are the analysts. Monkeys. Tons and tons of little monkeys. Not humans, just monkeys crawling all over each other and pulling lice out of each other’s fur. Those are the analysts.”
― John Rolfe, Monkey Business: Swinging Through the Wall Street Jungle

“Making a product is just an activity, making a profit on a product is the achievement.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“What investment banking is to the ambitious and acquisitive today, the pepper trade was to the Romans—the most direct route to great riches.”
― William J. Bernstein, A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World

“Save to invest, don’t save to save.”
― Oscar Auliq-Ice

“Millions wish for financial freedom, but only those that make it a priority have millions.”
― Oscar Auliq-Ice

“Investing is not only for rich people. Look at nature - the small grasses invest just like the big magnolia trees. The wildflowers invest just like the oak trees. Investing is a natural phenomena, a condition of living in natural and efficient systems. It isn’t an exclusive thing.

Of course the oak trees are investing on a much larger scale than the wildflowers, but they do not have a monopoly on natural phenomena.

So whether you are working with one hundred, one thousand or a few hundred thousand… get investing. But get a professional investor working on your behalf as soon as possible. You can get started at any level, but a professional investor will get you the greatest results. I’d love for that to be Mayflower-Plymouth.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

“Economy is a living project, And with cooperation and determination, We'll build a better future for every nation.”
― Oscar Auliq-Ice

“The only inexplicable aspect of the process was that economic theory (which is, after all, what economics students were supposed to know) served almost no function in an investment bank. The bankers used economics as a sort of standardized test of general intelligence.”
― Michael Lewis, Liar's Poker

“Keep your eyes on the price when spending, don't regret later to find that you have nothing for tomorrow.”
― Oscar Auliq-Ice

“Get into Investment Banking”
― ibhacker

“Time is a valuable wealth.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“The set of friends that surrounded me ranged from a girl who received a Porsche wrapped in pink ribbons for her eighteenth birthday to someone who was ecstatic that he had made enough money to buy marijuana for his mother as a birthday present.”
― Soo Jin Park, Precisely How to Live: A Wall Street Banker's Playbook for Success, Values, and Joy

“Investment banks induce corporations to cater, even manipulate, their balance sheet and other financial numbers to meet Wall Street expectations”
― Karen Ho, Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street

“I am not saying that VCs are despicably evil (that would be investment bankers), but you would be better spending more time on building your business than building and polishing the pitch deck.”
― Victoria Silchenko, Raise and Rise: Funding Sources for Your Startup in the Era of Digital Transformation & Blockchain

“The premise of accepting a job at an investment bank is the understanding that you are "rewarded" for the risk of taking on a job that is not a career but rather a "financial relationship" where you must be worth more than what you are being paid today.”
― Karen Ho, Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street

“Investment banks are pressured to create hype and stimulate "investor appetite.”
― Karen Ho, Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street

“Investment banking practices promoted a surge of predatory lending to originate loans and created a market for buying bonds based on them.”
― Karen Ho, Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street