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There are three ways to make a living in this business: be first, be smarter, or cheat. Now, I don't cheat. And although I like to think we have some pretty smart people in this building, it sure is a hell of a lot easier to just be first.

You know, the feeling that people experience when they stand on the edge like this isn't the fear of falling—it's the fear that they might jump.

Please, speak as you might to a young child or a Golden Retriever. It wasn't brains that got me here, I can assure you that.

I'll do it, John, but not because of your little speech. But because I need the money. Hard to believe after all these years, but I... I need the money.

[Telling Seth he's likely going to be laid off] Listen, nothing I'm gonna say is going to make you feel any better. It's just going to suck for a while, and then you'll be fine.