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David Levien Quotes

Total quotes: 21
“Once you get going prosecuting people who don't deserve it, it gets hard to stop.”
— Bryan Connerty, Billions, Season 3: Not You, Mr. Dake
Tagged: Slippery Slopes, Moral Landslide
“What we do has consequences, intended or unintended. The decisions we make, The actions we bring—have weight.”
— Chuck Rhoades, Billions, Season 1: Pilot
Tagged: Decisions, actions, Consequences
“You know the only enemy more dangerous than a man with unlimited resources is one with nothing to lose. And that is what you are looking at right here.”
— Chuck Rhoades, Billions, Season 1: The Conversation
Tagged: Enemy, danger, nothing to lose
“You need me, because I am willing to stare into the abyss beyond conventional morality and do what needs to be done.”
— Chuck Rhoades, Billions, Season 1: The Punch
Tagged: Will Do Anything, Screw Ethics
“The doctor's oath: do no harm. Three words, and yet — almost impossible to put into practice.”
— Taylor Mason, Billions, Season 3: Not You, Mr. Dake
Tagged: Hippocratic Oath, Theory vs. Practice, Ideals and Realities
“A good matador doesn’t try to kill a fresh bull. You wait until he’s been stuck a few times.”
— Chuck Rhoades, Blindspot, Season 1: Pilot
Tagged: strategy, Wear Them out, Winning, Prey
“The individual sacrificing their self for the whole can be the most beautiful thing there is. But not if it's done under duress or for the wrong reasons.”
— Taylor Mason, Billions, Season 3: Not You, Mr. Dake
Tagged: For The Greater Good, Sacrifices
“First I figured out where the sharp action was, where the guys who had a plan were, the guys who grinded. Took the guesswork out of it.”
— Bobby "Axe" Axelrod, Billions, Billions Season 2: Risk Management
Tagged: Action, Guesswork, strategy
“You know, being a billionaire I never get to talk about this with anyone 'cause who's gonna give a shit? But being a billionaire, when you walk into a room, it's like being a woman with a perfect set of tits.”
— Bobby "Axe" Axelrod, Billions, Season 1: Pilot
Tagged: Billionaires, Fame, Tits
“It's time for you folks to sharpen your pencils, and you better come back with one Traci Lords of an idea. And if you need that fucking defined, here it is: a barely legal, market-dominating, brilliant cocksucker of an idea.”
— Mike "Wags" Wagner, Billions, Billions Season 2: Risk Management
Tagged: Traci Lords, Ideas, Cocksucker, Brilliant
“You know those poison-tip arrows that certain tribes use that go through one guy and kill another? This might be like that — golden frog poison. I tried to smoke it once. Shaman jumped across the tent to stop me.”
— Mike "Wags" Wagner, Billions, Billions Season 2: Golden Frog Time
Tagged: When Your Drugs Are Actually Poisons
“When I walk out that door today, we are friends for life or you don’t exist to me ever again.”
— Bobby "Axe" Axelrod, Billions, Season 1: The Conversation
Tagged: Friends, Ultimatums
“You don't want to be in politics, you want to be beyond politics.”
— Wendy Rhoades, Billions, Season 3: All the Wilburys
Tagged: Nietzschean Themes In Popular Culture, Politics Sucks, Going Beyond The Power to a Higher Power
“If you fuck me, I never talk to you again.”
— Bobby "Axe" Axelrod, Billions, Season 1: Pilot
Tagged: Threats, Don't Mess With Me
“Foolishness is right next door to strength.”
— Wendy Rhoades, Billions, Billions Season 2: Golden Frog Time
Tagged: Foolishness, Pretending To Be Strong
“They may be cheering now, but believe me, they are dying to boo.”
— Chuck Rhoades, Billions, Season 1: Pilot
Tagged: crowds, Waiting for You To Fail
“Kennedy wasn't under as much pressure as I am. ”
— Bobby "Axe" Axelrod, Billions, Season 3: Tie Goes to the Runner
Tagged: John F. Kennedy, pressure, Stress
“You have about as much edge as Mister Rogers.”
— Bobby "Axe" Axelrod, Billions, Season 3: Tie Goes to the Runner
Tagged: insults, Diss
“When I pull a deal off the table, I leave Nagasaki behind.”
— Bobby "Axe" Axelrod, Billions, Season 1: The Conversation
Tagged: Dealmaking, Nagasaki
“The entire hedge fund industry is under siege. We deserve it. We've acted as if it would go on forever. Even the shitty returns, the outflow of institutional money and rise of quant-funds have lighted to way to our demise. We have wilfully refused to change.”
— Bobby "Axe" Axelrod, Billions, Billions Season 2: Risk Management
Tagged: hedge funds, Finance, TV Quotes
“ I don’t believe in the soul not in the way it’s traditionally used, nor in the more modern meaning, which connotes connectedness and being spiritually awake. What I do believe in are actions, purpose, purity of vocation, and the challenges that come along with those things, the things that make me feel alive. Axe Capital gives me all of that and more. So, you worry about my soul, and I’ll just keep doing my job.”
— Taylor Mason, Billions, Billions Season 2: Golden Frog Time
Tagged: Soul
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