Merrill Quotes

I`ll sell when Merrill Lynch has commodity brokers in every office again and the TV networks are broadcasting from the soybean pits in Chicago.

You can no longer buy commodities at Merrill Lynch. My guess is many analysts and even executives are too young to know how profitable a hot commodities market can be. They will soon.

(referring to her fourth husband, Gary Merrill): "Gary was a macho man, but none of my husbands was ever man enough to become Mr. Bette Davis."

You`ve seen several commercial banks make acquisitions of smaller regional brokerage firms this year, and all of them believe quite sincerely that they are going to grow revenues as a result and gain market share because they now offer one-stop comprehensive financing for their customers. At the same time I don`t think Merrill Lynch is planning to lose any business.

This gives Merrill an established brokerage force, and since the brokerage business is a scale business, getting bigger makes sense.

The most essential thing for us was to get the business model right, then put the world-class technology under it to support it. At Merrill, that meant not doing what people expected.

I was surprised by the announcement that they (Merrill) were going to be that weak. Clearly, June is extremely weak.