Because by the time you read about it in The Wall Street Journal, it's already too late.
7 seconds sound clip from the The Wolf of Wall Street movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:33:32 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
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- First we pitch 'em Disney, AT&T, IBM, blue chip stocks exclusively. Companies these people know.
- Once we've suckered them in, we unload the dog shit.
- The pink sheets, the penny stocks, where we make the money.
- Fifty percent commission, baby.
- Because by the time you read about it in The Wall Street Journal, it's already too late.
- Then you wait. You wait. And whoever speaks first loses.
- Point is, it doesn't matter what the fuck they say.
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