Opportunity is not business at all

Elmore 2022-03-20 09:02:01

The essence of business is barter, which is a truth that primitive people know. Today's people use fraud to benefit, after all, they are lazy. I don’t want to earn hard money, but dirty money comes and goes quickly. When we feel that we are not worthy of the money, squandering is the inevitable end. Besides, most people are punished by law if they fail to spend it.

The film tells the story of a college student who opened a small casino in the school, and was very happy, but when his father, a judge, found out, he was furious. He always cared about his father's approval and thought he was looking for a "decent job". Under the introduction of a professional manager, he joined a financial fraud and was eventually caught by the FBI. Eventually he woke up and reunited with his father.

I think the father-son line is the highlight of the film. The father is also a key figure in the story. The misunderstanding with his father since he was a child and the eagerness to imagine his father to prove himself have always been problems in many of our families. The father shoulders the burden of the judge. Social roles, and is not good at dealing with "men" family relationships, can understand. Or persuade people to work hard and not take ill-gotten gains

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  • Madeline 2022-03-27 09:01:10

    There are quite a lot of such companies in China now, and they are 10 years behind.

  • Lina 2022-03-25 09:01:10

    Money is the root of all evil

Boiler Room quotes

  • Greg Weinstein: [to Seth] I'm going to be honest with you, I think you're running a good business and you're a smart kid, pulling in some real cash but I have to tell you this is a risky fucking business, are you honestly planning to deal cards to college kids when your fucking thirty five? You don't think you're going to get "pinched" in the next few years? Maybe it's about time to think further down the line.

  • Seth Davis: [Narrating] I was making good money with the casino but these guys were "macking" it hard, that's the level I wanted to be operating on so I drove out to Long Island, the office was a good hour from Wall Street, somebody forgot to tell the guys who worked there though, they looked and acted like they took the sixth train to Fulton Street every morning but it wasn't Wall Street it was exit fifty three on the Long Island Expressway, a good hour from the New York Stock Exchange, "Group interview my ass", it was like a Hitler youth rally in retrospect, the guy who pitched us, Jim Young was the head recruiter there between him and Michael honestly they can sell bubblegum at the lockjaw ward at Bellevue.