Best Wall Street Journal Quotes : WSJ Sayings

These Wall Street Journal quotes will inspire you. The Wall Street Journal, also known as The Journal, is an American business-focused, English-language international daily newspaper based in New York City, with international editions also available in Chinese and Japanese.

A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging Wall Street Journal quotes, Wall Street Journal sayings, and Wall Street Journal proverbs.

Famous Wall Street Journal Quotes

1. “I became a larger than life figure for one reason only. When you’re quoted in the ‘Wall Street Journal,’ the ‘New York Times,’ constantly as the expert in the business people assume you’re a lot bigger than you are. And then I had to run like hell to catch up with my own image.” ~ Barbara Corcoran
2. “As the Wall Street Journal called our economic plan, supply-side economics for the working man, is resonating in Minnesota and here in Missouri and across this country.” ~ Rick Santorum
3. “I supported myself by delivering the ‘Wall Street Journal’ and doing odd jobs. I love plumbing and carpentry.” ~ David Lynch

4. “Murdoch paid too much for the Wall Street Journal even when he didn’t have any competition.” ~ Sumner Redstone

5. “The art of investing is not about figuring out what has already happened. It’s about anticipating the futureand creating the future that others will read about in The Wall Street Journal.” ~ Joshua Rogers
6. “If you are looking for a kindly, well-to-do older gentleman who is no longer interested in sex, take out an ad in The Wall Street Journal.” ~ Abigail Van Buren
7. “I don’t want to romanticize the world in which everybody watched three networks and the Washington Post and the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal were incredibly dominant. That time has passed.” ~ David Remnick

8. “A prominent mention in The Wall Street Journal a couple of weeks ago garnered me a whopping 40 visitors.” ~ Steve Rubel

9. “The largest newspaper in the United States is only reaching 1 percent of population. We are kind of assuming that ‘Wall Street Journal,’ ‘USA Today,’ and other newspapers are very important. Yes, they’re extremely important, but only to 1 percent of the population on a daily basis.” ~ Yuri Milner
10. “The Democratic Party’s problem is that voters don’t believe the president’s claims that the economy is thriving. Even people with jobs feel apprehensive. Paychecks are flat, growth anemic, and people are worried about their children’s prospects. Mr. Obama had a 38% approval on handling the economy in the Sept. 9 Fox News poll. In the Sept. 7 NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, 67% believe America is on the wrong track.” ~ Karl Rove
11. “The Catholic church, once all her assets have been put together, is the most formidable stockbroker in the world. The Vatican, independently of each successive pope, has been increasingly orientated towards the U.S. The Wall Street Journal said that the Vatican’s financial deals in the U.S. alone were so big that very often it sold or bought gold in lots of a million or more dollars at one time.” ~ Avro Manhattan

12. “In a polling conducted by the Wall Street Journal, 11 out of 12 Americans said they oppose the taking of private property, even if it is for public economic good.” ~ Jim Ryun

13. “What we have are good gray ballplayers, playing a good gray game and reading the good gray Wall Street Journal. They have been brainwashed, dry-cleaned and dehydrated!… Wake up the echoes at the Hall of Fame and you will find that baseball’s immortals were a rowdy and raucous group of men who would climb down off their plaques and go rampaging through Cooperstown, taking spoils…. Deplore it if you will, but Grover Cleveland Alexander drunk was a better pitcher than Grover Cleveland Alexander sober.” ~ Bill Veeck
14. “The media didn’t hand it to Obama; after all, the Number One cable news channel, Fox, is right-wing. The Number One newspaper, the Wall Street Journal, also has a right-wing editorial slant (and is owned by the same guy who owns Fox News). The Number One talk radio show is Rush Limbaugh, and Sean Hannity is Number Two, and Glenn Beck is Number Three. When you control all the largest media outlets, it’s time to stop grousing about liberal media bias.” ~ Paul Begala
15. “OK, so here’s the deal. First of all, “The Wall Street Journal” was bought for $5 billion. It’s now worth $500 million, OK. They don’t have to tell me what to do. “The Wall Street Journal” has been wrong so many different times about so many different things. I am all for free trade, but it’s got to be fair. When Ford moves their massive plant to Mexico, we get nothing. We lose all of these jobs.” ~ Donald Trump

16. “Despite what The Wall Street Journal says, our awards are the best-kept secret in America, with the possible exception of what George W. Bush did in the ’70s.” ~ Billy Crystal

17. “Monica Langley has a great piece in The Wall Street Journal about how they’re trying to create different kinds of moments for Donald Trump, as opposed to just him shouting at rallies. They’re trying to get him in classrooms, and in churches, and in diners and places where he can make a more personal connection.” ~ Bill Burton
18. “I read on the front page of the Wall Street Journal that NATO is opening up a major terror division. And I think that’s great. And I think we should get – because we pay approximately 73 percent of the cost of NATO. It’s a lot of money to protect other people.” ~ Donald Trump
19. “My goodness, why is this woman [ Hillary Clinton ] at 46%? She’s like the magic 46. She’s 46% in the new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, she’s 46% in a lot of these swing states.” ~ Anderson Cooper

20. “[Donald] Trump suggesting to “The Wall Street Journal” that he would stop aiding the rebels fighting [Bashir] Assad.” ~ George Stephanopoulos

21. “The Financial Times is a wonderful publication, as is the Wall Street Journal and many others. But the new generation is consuming media fundamentally differently. At Business Insider, we have the chance to embrace that whole-heartedly. We do not have a print legacy, digital is not our second business behind a newspaper. It is our only one.” ~ Henry Blodget
22. “Oh, look at this. NBC/Wall Street Journal: “Thirty-eight percent of the American people say [Donald] Trump’s comments about women disqualify him from being president.”” ~ Rush Limbaugh
23. “Monica Langley of the “Wall Street Journal” is reporting that Donald Trump’s strategy is essentially two-pronged. that he’s trying to use the split in the GOP to rally his base and trying to depress Democratic turnout.” ~ Anderson Cooper

24. “I really like to read when I’m eating – ‘The New York Times’ or the ‘Wall Street Journal,’ paper version.” ~ Kevin Nealon

25. “There’s something exhilarating about telling stories that haven’t been shared before and haven’t been told publicly before. The last thing I want to be doing is telling stories other people have already told. That’s not to say that there isn’t important work out there about people in positions of power, but I know my strength. Even when I was at the Wall Street Journal 10 years ago, this is what I wrote about.” ~ Alex Kotlowitz
26. “Obamacare is woven into the fabric of health care. It’s very hard to just rip it out, as Donald Trump sort of acknowledged with The Wall Street Journal.” ~ David Brooks
27. “I wrote an article about the marine landing [in Haiti] right away, but barely mentioned the oil, because my article would come out two months later and I assumed by then, “of course, everybody knows.” Nobody knew. There was a news report in the Wall Street Journal, in the petroleum journals, and in some small newspapers, but not in the mainstream press.” ~ Noam Chomsky

28. “According to a Wall Street Journal article some 59 percent of Americans don t own a single book. Not a cookbook or even the Bible.” ~ Maureen Corrigan

29. “life becomes satire in real time, what good is the premiere satire magazine? It might as well just be the newspaper. You could pick up The Wall Street Journal and be like, “Oh, what a funny Onion headline!” And then the editor of The Onion is like, “Huh. I guess you won’t be needing me anymore.”” ~ Moshe Kasher
30. “I’ve always said that if you want to find out what’s going on in Iraq or Afghanistan or Libya, I’ll give you a choice. You can either read The New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, or you can go to the NATO, ISAF, multi-national force websites where they have their own news releases. Who will give you a more accurate picture? I’ll take the mainstream media.” ~ Michael Hastings
31. “I thought the Wall Street Journal quote, they got a guy in Iowa to say I think exactly where I think this race is right now for a lot Republicans. He said, “Nobody in Iowa wants [Donald]Trump for president. But everybody in Iowa wants somebody like Trump for president.” That’s what you need.” ~ Dalia Mogahed

32. “Right after 9-11, as far as I know, one newspaper in the United States had the integrity to investigate opinion in the Muslim world: the ‘Wall Street Journal.'” ~ Noam Chomsky

33. “In market research I did at Microsoft Corp. in the early 1990s, I estimated that the ‘Wall Street Journal’ took in about 75 cents per copy from subscribers, $1.25 at the newsstand and a whopping $5 per copy from ads. The ad revenue let them run a far bigger newsroom than subscribers were paying for.” ~ Nathan Myhrvold
34. “I speak to kids 16, 17 years old, they haven’t read a newspaper. They haven’t physically handled a newspaper. They don’t even look at the headlines on a subway. These kids are on the Internet and the level of news that they’re getting is not the quality of ‘The New York Times’ or ‘The Wall Street Journal.’ It’s way deficient, and they don’t care.” ~ Harvey Weinstein
35. “As I was getting interviewed by the Wall Street Journal, or some big pub guy, all I remember was that he went off to the bathroom for a second, and they brought out my omelet. The next thing I remember, I woke up, and I was on the side of my own omelet, and there was no one at Buck’s. Everyone was gone. They just let me sleep.” ~ Max Levchin”As was noted in the Wall Street Journal, last March 21st, FDA approval of drug labelling, ‘…requires seven to ten years, and costs each applicant an average of $70 million.'” ~ Orrin Hatch
36. “All the big corporations depreciate their possessions, and you can, too, provided you use them for business purposes. For example, if you subscribe to the Wall Street Journal, a business-related newspaper, you can deduct the cost of your house, because, in the words of U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger in a landmark 1979 tax decision: Where else are you going to read the paper? Outside? What if it rains?” ~ Dave Barry

37. “The truth is, everything we know about America, everything Americans come to know about being American, isn’t from the news. I live there. We don’t go home at the end of the day and think, “Well, I really know who I am now because the Wall Street Journal says that the Stock Exchange closed at this many points.” What we know about how to be who we are comes from stories. It comes from the novels, the movies, the fashion magazines. It comes from popular culture.” ~ Chris Abani

38. “These CEOs, man … If you’re that ruthless, you’re a scary dude. I tell you, now when I walk past a little gang banger, I don’t even blink. But if I see a white dude with a Wall Street Journal, I haul ass. Before I walk past the Arthur Andersen building, I cut through the projects. If you cut through the projects, you may just lose what you have on you that day. I ain’t never been mugged of my whole future.” ~ Wanda Sykes
39. “A handful of us determine what will be on the evening news broadcasts, or, for that matter, in the New York Times or Washington Post or Wall Street Journal. Indeed it is a handful of us with this awesome power.And those [news stories] available to us already have been culled and re-culled by persons far outside our control.” ~ Walter Cronkite

40. “The great thing about having money is that you can actually just get on with your life and not have to think about paying the bills or crouch over The Wall Street Journal or the Financial Times and look at the stock figures and things like that. That bores me rigid.” ~ Peter Mayle

41. “I am a Christian resident of New York City. I simply read things the other Manhattanites read (NY Times, New Yorker magazine, Wall Street Journal, and many of the books they read) plus all my Christian reading. I don’t do anything special to understand skeptics. I also talk to a lot of skeptics and read things they point to.” ~ Timothy Keller
42. “I don’t think I’m an angry person. I think I’m a person who’s angry. I’m angry at the Bush administration; I’m angry at the right wing media. And by that I don’t mean the media is right wing. I mean, there is a part of the media that’s not the mainstream media. That’s Fox, that is ‘The Wall Street Journal’ editorial page.” ~ Al Franken

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