Muriel Siebert Quotes
100 Muriel Siebert Quotes (Mickie Siebert)
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You create opportunities by performing, not complaining.
Muriel Siebert
There were no female role models, so I just blazed my own path.
Muriel Siebert
When I came to New York, I had five hundred dollars and a very used Studebaker car. Today I have eighteen honorary doctorate degrees even though I never completed college, and I became the first woman to buy a seat on the New York Stock Exchange.
Muriel Siebert
I fought like a son of a bitch to get ahead.
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I didn’t create my business simply by pounding on the door and saying ‘I’m a woman, I’m entitled.’ I made my success by slugging it out with the boys.
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Part of my career goal was ‘Where can I go where there is no unequal pay situation?’ That’s why I decided to buy a seat on the stock exchange and work for myself.
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I’m still fighting like a son of a bitch.
Muriel Siebert
A women can be an S.O.B.
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With money in your pocket, you are wise and you are handsome, and you sing well too.
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Must greed be the creed?
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You don’t have guarantees in this world. You’ve got to take chances.
Muriel Siebert
In some cases being a woman was an obstacle, but it probably gave me more incentives that I would have had if I’d been a man…
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Technology will continue to march ahead, with or without you.
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Make technology your friend. Use it. Otherwise it will be your enemy.
Muriel Siebert
If you are going to sit there and wait for other people to do things for you, you will soon be 80-years-old and look back and say ‘Hey, what did I do?’
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I vowed I would do whatever I wanted to do.
Muriel Siebert
I think he felt hurt when I called him up and told him he was a no good goddamn son of a bitch.
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[On the future of her business with her not being married, have no family in the business and having learnt first hand that a caretaker management is a sure ticket to oblivion] I expect to be around for a good while.
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I tell people, stick to your guns. You will make money eventually. There is really no substitute for picking a company that your own research shows is going to increase its earnings and has a good outlook.
Muriel Siebert
You make money by taking a stand and being right.
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Being able to make money was important to me because my father died without money.
Muriel Siebert
Giving back is more than an obligation, it’s a privilege.
Muriel Siebert
[On the loan to getting her NYSE seat] Before I made a bid for that seat, I knew exactly how much volume I would have to generate to meet the cost of the interest and pay my expenses. I had meaningful obligations, including the support of an aging mother, and if I couldn’t keep up my income, my mother would have been permanently camping out on a sofabed in my apartment.
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My first year on my own, I earned close to $1 million in sales commissions and helped finance three prestigious private placements…
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A business owner must reappraise on a continual basis. I don’t care if you’re selling stocks or stockings. If sales are down and your net is down, you have to ask: What’s going on here? Is it the industry? Is it the economy? Or have I made a mistake? Don’t let emotions cloud your judgement here, either.
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Technology will continue to march ahead, with or without you. I’ve been on Wall Street for over 40 years. If someone had told me even five years ago that I’d have a computer on my desk and actually use it every day, I would have laughed. Technology is changing everything, and that will not stop. Make technology your friend. Use it. Otherwise it will be your enemy.
Muriel Siebert
I also recommend that you keep your other skills sharp and current. Learn finance. Watch closely global economics. And know how to write and talk and read and listen.
Muriel Siebert
[On speculators pushing her companies share price from $8.50 to $70 and then back down to $13.50 – Giving a net worth at one time of $1.4 billion] It’s a good thing I didn’t try to spend it.
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It’s not as I if I didn’t have enough money to take care of myself.
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[On the dotcom bigger fool theory] I hate to see innocent, misguided people get hurt.
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[In 2001] It’s no longer the Lord who giveth and taketh, it’s the day traders. That’s the way it is these days.
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[On giving serious financial information to women] No horoscopes, child-rearing, or hobby pieces.
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A lot of people who have never been in a down market got hurt. So we got hurt too. We think people should be reminded of basic values like earnings and cash flow.
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I’ve always been good at numbers. They light up the page for me.
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If you are going to sit there and wait for other people to do things for you, you will soon be 80-years-old and look back and say ‘Hey, what did I do?’ My mother had a God-given voice, and she was offered a place on the stage, but nice Jewish girls didn’t go on the stage in those days. So, I grew up with a woman who was frustrated her entire life. I certainly wasn’t going to continue that role. I vowed I would do whatever I wanted to do.
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To me, the sexual stuff was just part of the game. I remember telling some guys to go do the physically impossible to themselves.
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Sometimes women are too sensitive.
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Places like the floor of the New York Stock Exchange are known to be animal farms.
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When people work under a lot of pressure, the language can get rough. I learned all my foul language at the trading post. It doesn’t mean a thing to me. They’re just words.
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[On being the first women to apply to the Stock Exchange Big Board in it’s 175 year history and having droves of women come for jobs or advice] They didn’t have to look too far to find me. The office was so tiny that all they had to do was open the door, and there I was.
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