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David Shaw: [meeting in a crowded diner] Come on Steve, a man with your résumé can come up with four hundred grand in no time.
Steven: [Nods] Where?
David Shaw: My place, you don't show up with the cash, I'll mail the recording I have as "Steven's greatest hits."
Steven: I understand.
David Shaw: [hands him the tab] Be fucking sure you do.
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Steven: [over a speakerphone with Steven's advisors Nolan and Stein present] In case you forgot Elliot, it's a "zero sum game, I just don't think you got the balls for it.
Elliot: The hell with you Taylor, this time tomorrow neither one of us will have any balls left.
Steven: Just don't panic.
Elliot: you're damn right I am.
Steven: so what's it to you? You dropped $50 million in a day?
Steven: do you know how fast 50 can become 500?
Steven: what's the spot rate?
Elliot: you look at it, we're sitting at ground zero and you're telling me to "think happy thoughts"?
Christian Chase
Extended Reading
