“Rogue Trader” quotes
(1999)
Title Rogue Trader
Year 1999
Director James Dearden
Genre Drama, History, Crime, Thriller
Year 1999
Director James Dearden
Genre Drama, History, Crime, Thriller
All actors – Ewan McGregor, Anna Friel, Yves Beneyton, Betsy Brantley, Caroline Langrishe, Nigel Lindsay, Tim McInnerny, Irene Ng, Lee Ross, Simon Shepherd, John Standing, Pip Torrens
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“Outraging a lady's modesty, very serious crime in Singapore.”
“The locals are great. Best thing about this place is it's not still full of pompous ex-colonials who think they were born to rule the world. That's what I love about Asia, anyone can make it, it doesn't matter which stupid school you went to.”
“A futures contract is an agreement to buy or sell a specified amount of a commodity at a specified price at a future date.”
“It's like if I agree to sell you this cup of cappuccino, which I don't yet own, at 45 cents a month from now, if I can buy the cappuccino at say, 43 cents, I make a profit. If the price goes the other way, I have to pay more and I lose. It's timing, it's buying and selling at the right moment. Sometimes expresso might be the best deal, or salt...” (continue)(continue reading)
“- Tony Hawes: He doesn't do things by the book. He just doesn't respect the rules. Is he really the kind of person we should be employing at Barings?
- Ron Baker: Fuck the rules. It's barrow boys like Nick who are turning the City of London around. You can't run a modern financial centre with a bunch of Hooray Henries.”“I've discovered it's not actually terribly difficult to make money in the securities business.”
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