wolf of Wall Street
English
Noun
wolf of Wall Street (plural wolves of Wall Street)
- (derogatory) A high-level financier who preys on the general public.
- 1934 July 16, “Oklahoma's Choice”, in Time Magazine, volume XXIV, number 3, page 14:
- He [Ernest Whitworth Marland] always felt that he had been euchred out of control of his Marland Oil Co. by unscrupulous financiers and when in 1932 he was elected to Congress, he kept up a steady racket against "the wolves of Wall Street."
- 1936 January 18, Joseph P. Kennedy, “Shielding the Sheep”, in Saturday Evening Post, volume 208, number 29:
- I recall one old-timer who had been, in his way, one of the minor wolves of Wall Street. He said that SEC [U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission] espionage gave him a temptation he could barely resist — to go honest.
- 1947, Gordon McDonell; Irving Pichel, director, They Won't Believe Me, spoken by Larry Ballentine; Speed Bowman (Robert Young; Paul Maxey):
- Larry [Ballentine]'s Voice: Greta's Aunt Martha, who hated me — Mrs. Bowman, who bored me — and her husband, "Speed" Bowman, Yale, '24, who'd parlayed a touchdown against Harvard into a million-dollar brokerage business...
Bowman: If it ain't the Wolf of Wall Street: Come in, Wolf, and drink at the spring.
- 2015, Matt D'Avella, director, Minimalism: A Documentary About the Important Things, 44:18 from the start, response to presentation by "The Minimalists", Ryan Nicodemus and Joshua Fields Millburn:
- You're dedicated, you're creative, you're innovative. You have a sincere desire for mankind— the very people who the wolves of Wall Street fear. And to me, you're removing yourself from the war.