Steve Fishman, on Steve Cohen's dedication to trading:

When a friend asked, "Why do you keep doing it?," he responded, "What else is there to do?"

Chris Hayes:

36 percent of the 2010 Princeton class who had full-time jobs at graduation went into finance.

Thomas Piketty:

The richest 1 percent appropriated 60 percent of the increase in US national income between 1977 and 2007.

Michael Osinski:

When you're close to the money, you get the first cut. Oyster farmers eat lots of oysters, don't they?