A scene from The Wolf of Wall Street 2013
Mark Hanna

The name of the game; move the money from the client's pocket into your pocket.

Jordan

Right. But, if you can make your clients money at the same time it's advantageous to everyone, correct?

Mark Hanna

No. Number one rule of Wall Street: Nobody - I don't care if you're Warren Buffett or Jimmy Buffett - Nobody knows if the stock's going to go up, down, sideways, or in **** circles, least of all stockbrokers. It's all a Fugazzi. You know what a Fugazzi is?

Jordan

It's, uh... "Fugazi", it's a fake...

Mark Hanna

Fugazi, Fugazzi. It's a wazzy, it's a woozy. It's [whistles] fairy dust. It doesn't exist. It's Neverlanded. It is no matter. It's not on the elemental chart. It's not **** real. Stay with me. We don't create shit. We don't build anything. So if you've got a client who bought stock at 8 and it now sits at 16, and he's all ****in' happy. He wants to cash in, liquidate, take his ****in' money and run home. You don't let him do that, because that would make it real. No. What do you do? You get another brilliant idea. A special idea. Another "situation". Another stock, to reinvest his earnings and then some. And he will, every single time, because they're **** addicted. And then you just keep doing this, again and again and again and again. Meanwhile, he thinks he's getting shit rich, which he is, on paper. But you and me, the brokers, we're taking home cold hard cash via commission, mother****er!

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