quotes

Someone miscalculated my change.

— Mike S. · March 6, 2010

Vendor: We're at the floor
Rob: Then they're in the basement

— Rob Horan · August 14, 2009
(Rob disarming one vendor's argument that the service pricing offered couldn't be any lower… with the help of another vendor.)

48 Laws? Thats a lot of laws… even God got it down to 10.

— James Platt · January 7, 2010
(Commenting on my insistence that he read The 48 Laws of Power)

(Asked of a mother) “How do you know your son goes to strip-clubs?”
(Answered by her co-worker) “He's overdrawn every month…”

— Names withheld by request · January 7, 2010

Is marijuana really a gateway drug to heroin? I don't think so; thats like saying oral is the gateway to anal.

— Melissa K. Wells · December 24, 2009

“The simultaneous selling of securities to customers and shorting them because they believed they were going to default is the most cynical use of credit information that I have ever seen,” said Sylvain R. Raynes, an expert in structured finance at R & R Consulting in New York. “When you buy protection against an event that you have a hand in causing, you are buying fire insurance on someone else’s house and then committing arson.”

— “Banks Bundled Bad Debt, Bet Against It and Won” · New York Times, December 23, 2009

I do better on my 3rd bottle of wine…

— Jeff D. McKeown · April 20, 2009

I'm dreaming of a white christmas - but if the white runs out I'll drink the red!

— Janeen Likens-Polen · November 30, 2009

The reason that 'guru' is such a popular word is because 'charlatan' is so hard to spell.

William J. Bernstein · American financial theorist & author; (official website)

Linda: You should see what's hanging over our bed...
Paul: What, the Sword of Damocles?

— Linda Lathrop & Paul Keyserling · 9 October 2009

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