- Maxwell Emery: Listen me out! Money, capital, has a life of its own. It's a force of the nature like gravity, like the oceans, it flows where it wants to flow. This whole thing with the Arabs and gold is inevitable, we're just going with the tide. The only question is whether you wanna let it go like an unguided missile and raise hell or whether you wanna keep it in the hands of responsible people, keep it channable, keep it quiet.
- [last lines]
- Hubbell Smith: I've been worried about you.
- Lee Winters: How are you?
- Hubbell Smith: Like everybody else. Looking for a way to begin again.
- Lee Winters: You're gonna need a partner.
- Gil Hovey: [addressing the trading floor, probably for the last time] Okay. The Arabs yanked every penny they had with us. They hit all the other outfits too, so it's across-the-board. Every bank in the country is gonna be struggling for liquidity trying to cover those cash withdrawals. We're dumping everything. Treasury bills, bonds, Fannie-Maes, commercial papers, we want it all sold. Fed Funds, Eurodollars, borrow whatever you can find up to 200 million. Foreign exchange, no positions. Bullion, grab what you can get. All right, let's hit it... and pray.
- Gil Hovey: [addressing the foreign exchange traders] Hold the phones! - Hold on. Okay, no arguments. Everybody cover their short-currency positions. Buy yen, sterling, francs, marks. Sell dollars. We've got 100 million to dump. No haggling over prices.
- Betsy Okamoto: Stock market's off 75 points. The dollar's depreciated 10 percent and moving down. They even yanked the Eurodollar deposits that weren't due. First New York is practically down the tubes, and gold just went over 2000.
- Gil Hovey: By tonight, that'll be cheap.
- Barney: [shouting] The customers wanna know what's happening. Do I tell them what we're doing?
- Gil Hovey: Tell them anything, Barney, except what we're doing!
- Roy Lefcourt: Maybe we could try to borrow in Frankfurt or Zurich. Swiss International owes us a favor.
- Hubbell Smith: It's over, Roy.
- Hubbell Smith: I took this trip without a parachute. This is where the fun begins.
- Roy Lefcourt: Look Smith, this is not some sort of game
- Hubbell Smith: Yes it its. That's exactly what it is. You keep talking about a system, Roy, and that's your problem. You can't beat the system. But you can win a game.