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David Levien Quotes

Total quotes: 36
“You don't have to outswim the shark. You just have to outswim the guy you're scuba diving with.”
— Orrin Bach, Billions, Season 1: Pilot
Tagged: Dog Eat Dog World, Cutthroat, No Mercy, Hard Truths
“Don't serve rabbit food to an elephant and ask if he's full.”
— Chuck Rhoades, Billions, Billions Season 2: Risk Management
Tagged: The Game, Hungry for Success, Never Stop, TV Quotes
“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
“We all mask certain emotions, often our most intense ones, like Bjorn Borg did. But like Borg, eventually, it'll end up costing you everything.”
— Chuck Rhoades, Billions, Season 3: Tie Goes to the Runner
Tagged: Festering, emotions, Bjorn Borg
“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
“Rich guys head to the city when their marriages fall apart for the same reason birds fly south instead of freezing their asses off.”
— Wendy Rhoades, Billions, Season 3: Tie Goes to the Runner
Tagged: Anthropomorphism, Broken Marriages
“Corrections are in order. There’s a way to make this work, and that way is hard, but necessary. As Taleb says, 'become antifragile, or die.'”
— Taylor Mason, Billions, Billions Season 2: Victory Lap
Tagged: Hard Work, Adversity, Anti-Fragile
“You wouldn't know the right thing to do if it kneeled down and sucked your tiny goddamn cock!”
— Chuck Rhoades, Billions, Season 1: Pilot
Tagged: insults
“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
“I had managed something better than payback. By acting with purpose and understatement, I had created a more just environment, which is what I am asking of all of you. This is the new way.”
— Chuck Rhoades, Elementary, Season 1: Risk Management
Tagged: Creative Mercy, Forgiveness as Punishment, Political Machinations, Christian Archetypes
“Now you fuckers know how much you miss this place when you can’t have it.”
— Mike "Wags" Wagner, Elementary, Season 1: Risk Management
Tagged: You Have To Lose It To Know What You Had, Loss
“Our practices leave grooves over time. And eventually, those grooves become walls that box us in.”
— Chuck Rhoades, Elementary, Season 1: Risk Management
Tagged: Habit, Routine, (Example of Good Tags), How You Get Stuck
“My father always said laughter was the best medicine, which is why I was so confused when I finally tried cocaine in the '80s.”
— Orrin Bach, Billions, Season 3: Tie Goes to the Runner
Tagged: Laughter Is The Best Medicine, Cocaine
“Millions of years ago a meteor hit the earth and brought on an ice age and even the mightiest of T-Rexes were brought to skeletons.”
— Bobby "Axe" Axelrod, Elementary, Season 1: Risk Management
Tagged: hedge funds, Finance, TV Quotes
“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
“As long as justice is served, credit doesn't matter.”
— Chuck Rhoades, Billions, Season 3: Tie Goes to the Runner
Tagged: Justice, In The Service of Justice Only
“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
“Maybe generations from now, they’ll tell stories about you, like they do Jesse James or Billy the Kid. The myth is so fucking romantic.”
— Chuck Rhoades, Billions, Season 1: The Conversation
Tagged: Billy the Kid, Myth, jesse james, Romantic
“You're just listening to the wrong voice. You're tuned in to the one yelling at you over the loudspeaker that you're fucking stupid, and you're ignoring the quiet one, inside, telling you where the alpha is. Now, that's the voice that got you here.”
— Wendy Rhoades, Billions, Season 1: Pilot
Tagged: Inner Voice, Alpha, Stupid
“As you wish, my liege.”
— Mike "Wags" Wagner, Billions, Season 3: Tie Goes to the Runner
“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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