HBO Quotes
Eric: I heard whispers at the offsite Sara wants me gone, did Daria tell you that? What do you think you've just done to move the dial on their fucking agenda? Do you think either of them would protect you like I have? Brought you over here?
Harper: I told you I couldn't be more grateful.
Eric: What do you think your gratitude's worth to me if you can't keep your fucking word? I was the only one willing to ignore your non-target background, pull you out of wherever, and give you the success that might, let's say, excuse your personality. The massive fucking chip on your shoulder. You see how I carefully elided the fact that you're also a fucking liar? Or is that how you sustain the delusion that you actually belong here?
Piece of advice, if you sit there like window dressing, it's hard to come back. The quicker you open your mouth, the quicker they know you're an actual human being on top of everything else.
Daria
But I guess we just play with the hand we're dealt.
Maxim
Harper: I actually wrote a paper on the moral case for capitalism.
Greg: That must have been short.
Harper: No, it was 8000 words.
But there are generally two times to tell me when you fucked up. The moment it's fucked, or the moment it's unfucked.
Eric
When I was a summer analyst at Solomon, my boss looked like Newman from Seinfeld. Like Newman, if he was a linebacker. He once said to me, "I used to think if there was such a thing as reincarnation, I wanted to come back as the president, or the pope, or a 400 baseball hitter. But now, I want to come back as the Bond Market because it intimidates everybody." People like us, born at the bottom. Where would you put our percentage chance of ever making that top quintile? It's about 3%. That's intimidating; we intimidate people here. Why is that? Because hunger is not a birthright. Your qualifications don't have to be a problem for you because they don't have to be a problem for me. Understand what I'm saying?
Eric
The only real currency you ever have as a salesperson is honesty.
Nicole
Harper, no client is worth being burned alive.
Daria
Yasmin: I don't need you to speak for me.
Robert: I wasn't.
Yasmin: Yeah, well, in my experience, anyone that calls themselves a "male feminist" is usually the villain of the piece.
Robert: Yeah, well, I never made that claim. You know, just... it wasn't all right.
Yasmin: Thanks.
I'm not going to be held responsible for your lack of responsibility.
Duncan
Yasmin: Well, you can either stand on the sidelines and comment, or you could join us and try to affect change.
Robert: I think Yasmin's very capable of navigating these things herself. But ultimately --
Yasmin: Ultimately, you come here because it's one of the few workplaces where nobody cares where you're from. There are many potential role models here. You can be one of them.
Robert: Look, you're his project. You're allowed to make one mistake.
Harper: No, no, actually, I'm not. I'm not allowed to make any mistakes. People like you are allowed to make mistakes.
Robert: What the fuck does that mean?
Harper: Mistakes are a privilege.
