Wall Street Journal

Famous quotes containing the words wall street, wall, street and/or journal:

    “This is Wall Street, and today is important. Because tomorrow, July 4th, I intended to make my first million dollars—an exciting day in a man’s life. The enterprise was slightly illegal.”
    —Abraham Polonsky (b. 1910)

    “It is bad to be poor. I shall go to the wall for bread and meat, if I neglect my business this year as well as last.”
    —Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

    “You had such a vision of the street
    As the street hardly understands;
    Sitting along the bed’s edge, where
    You curled the papers from your hair,
    Or clasped the yellow soles of feet
    In the palms of both soiled hands.”
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

    “After the writer’s death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.”
    —Jean Cocteau (1889–1963)