But Wall Street people are in fact very smart; they're funny, they're not company men who work their way up the chain.
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There is one thing Anthony Weiner and I agree on: there are a lot of smart, hard-working people in the financial industry.
I think very few people still understand the distinction between CEOs on Wall Street and the hedge-fund billionaires operating separately.
Everything that happens on Wall Street only fortifies my opinion that there is in fact a more ludicrous industry than the entertainment industry.
Whenever I came up against presidents of other companies, I was always smarter, because I was from the streets.
I'm not a Wall Street expert, but I can read the papers.
What Wall Street is, they're market makers. Wall Street's business model is making money on velocity of money. They're a click industry. That's what Wall Street is. They make a lot of money when there's a lot of turnover. And they make a lot of money when that velocity is fast.
There are a lot of ethical firms on Wall Street.
People in England talk about stupid Hollywood idiots, but the industry attracts some of the cleverest people in the world.
Wall Street is populated by a bunch of people whose primary goal is to make money, and the rules are pretty much caveat emptor.
The people who watch a movie like 'Wolf of Wall Street' and want to work on Wall Street are exactly the kind of people who shouldn't.