Boiler Room Quotes

• A sale is made on every call you make. Either you sell the client some stock or he sells you a reason he can't. Either way a sale is made, the only question is: Who is gonna close?

  Ben Affleck

  Way, Clients, Inspirational Sales

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• Let the fires go out in the boiler room of the church and the place will still look smart and clean, but it will be cold. The Prayer Room is the boiler room for its spiritual life.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Spiritual, Prayer, Smart

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• Anybody tells you that money is the root of all evil doesn't have any.

  Ben Affleck

  Roots, Evil, Money Is The Root Of All Evil

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• The lack of money is the root of all evil.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Bible, Sarcastic

  Mark Twain, John Sutton Tuckey (1980). “The Devil's Race-track: Mark Twain's Great Dark Writings : the Best from Which was the Dream? and Fables of Man”, p.337, Univ of California Press

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• They say money can't buy happiness? Look at the smile on my face. Ear to ear, baby!

  Ben Affleck

  Baby, Looks, Ears

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• If you can't meditate in a boiler room, you can't meditate.

  Alan Watts

  Inspiration, Meditation Practice, Rooms

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• Truth is beautiful and divine no matter how humble its origin.

  Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin

  Beautiful, Humble, Matter

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• God's away, God's away, God's away on business. Business!

  Tom Waits

  Song: God's Away On Business, Album: Blood Money, 2002

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• Writers collect stories of rituals: John Cheever putting on a jacket and tie to go down to the basement, where he kept a desk near the boiler room. Keats buttoning up his clean white shirt to write in, after work.

  Mona Simpson

  Writing, White, Ties

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• I actually live right near a high school and I always walk by...I live in a high school. I actually live in the boiler room of a high school at night. When I see high school guys now I'm actually like, 'Thank f - king God I'm not in high school anymore because they look like they could kick the living s - t out of me.'

  Seth Rogen

  Kings, School, Night

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• I used to do boiler room telemarketing for a living, like hardcore fraud stuff that gets busted on 60 Minutes every week.

  Doug Stanhope

  Stuff, Rooms, Week

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• Truth is beautiful and divine, no matter how humble its origin; it is the same in the musty boiler-room as it is in the glorious stars of heaven.

  Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin

  Beautiful, Stars, Humble

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• We went to - I guess it was a legitimate boiler room, and I sat in front of this guy who literally was on the phone with two people at once. They call it double fisting.

  Giovanni Ribisi

  Phones, Two, People

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• The ship is sinking The ship is sinking There's leak, there's a leak,in the boiler room The poor, the lame, the blind Who ore the ones that we kept in charge Killers, thieves, and lawyers God's Away, God's away God's away on Business

  Tom Waits

  Thieves, Lame, Killers

  Song: God's Away On Business

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• Sex in the nineties is boring. The problem is that it has gone from an active act to a spectator sport. We watch people make love on television and in films. We call 900 numbers to hear what someone would do to us if they weren't sitting in a boiler room of other dirty talkers reading from a prepared script.

  Erma Bombeck

  Funny, Sports, Sex

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