Tepper: “You can’t take a chance on not being a little longer now, you gotta buy. That doesn’t mean I’m going balls to the walls– can you say that?”

Joe Kernan: “You can say that. Balls to the walls. I’ll say it a couple times. Balls to the walls.”

Tepper: “Balls to the walls. It’s that easy right now.”

Comments (37)

  1. Posted by Guest | September 24, 2010 at 2:24 PM

    We prefer the phrase “Whiteboard markers in the a$$”

    Can I say that?

    P. Jiang

  2. Posted by Glass Balls | September 24, 2010 at 2:27 PM

    It moved.

  3. Posted by Guesticle | September 24, 2010 at 2:30 PM

    Why are your balls to more than one wall? I don’t get it.

  4. Posted by InfiniteGuest | September 24, 2010 at 2:38 PM

    Bess, please tell us he’s your next NYO interview.

  5. Posted by Anonymous | September 24, 2010 at 2:39 PM

    Tepper: All ya gotta do is say “earmuffs” to him, and you can say “Fuck, shit, bitch.”

    Kernen: Cock. Balls.

    Tepper: I’m just trying to make a point, Joe. You don’t have to celebrate it.

  6. Posted by SlowerLower3rd | September 24, 2010 at 2:49 PM

    I love to awaken animal spirits.

    Dennis Kneale, Dog Fisterer

  7. Posted by Guest | September 24, 2010 at 2:56 PM

    I prefer balls deep… but different strokes for different folks?

  8. Posted by Mr. Nobody | September 24, 2010 at 2:57 PM

    Looks like he’s long and leveraged the 21 chromosome.

  9. Posted by Scrooge McDuck/Dennis Kneale | September 24, 2010 at 3:04 PM

    God I love fucking Huey, Louie and Duey

  10. Posted by the show | September 24, 2010 at 3:04 PM

    He seems like a character, I bet he would be fun to work for

  11. Posted by Josh | September 24, 2010 at 3:22 PM

    If he was aiming at coming across as an arrogant dick, he certainly succeeded. Pathetic try at showing a sense of humor too.

  12. Posted by follow the leader | September 24, 2010 at 3:23 PM

    who watched the futures movement during this interview…

  13. Posted by Herp Derpson, Esq | September 24, 2010 at 3:26 PM

    I was next to two of the Apaloosa marketing guys at The Library and listened to their marketing push. They’re ludicrously incompetent. One guy actually said “I have no financial experience” in a marketing push.

    The claims of “It’s easy,” eerily consistent high returns, and etcetera make me smell ponzi.

  14. Posted by Balls & Cockpit | September 24, 2010 at 3:35 PM

    Balls to the wall refers to the ball on the end of the control stick in a fighter plane – when they needed to go fast and evasive, they’d say “balls to the wall” ie control sticks to the wall of the cockpit.

    Wow. Flying is gay.

  15. Posted by Financial_Servicer | September 24, 2010 at 3:38 PM

    Tepper has a disconcerting preoccupation with testicles.

  16. Posted by CMBS 4-Life | September 24, 2010 at 3:41 PM

    not at the table carlos!

  17. Posted by Guest | September 24, 2010 at 3:42 PM

    Wait, I didn’t know that glitter and roller skates were involved with flying.

  18. Posted by ss | September 24, 2010 at 3:43 PM

    I can feel it in my PLUMS

  19. Posted by Bes | September 24, 2010 at 4:16 PM

    Not really – office is a litte different

  20. Posted by guest | September 24, 2010 at 4:21 PM

    you’re an idiot. we don’t have marketing people

  21. Posted by Guest | September 24, 2010 at 4:22 PM

    you’re thinking of the Navy

  22. Posted by F40804 | September 24, 2010 at 4:42 PM

    The show was a piece of shit. Unoriginal, uninspired, you know.

    –Guy trying to bring back Mallrats quotes

  23. Posted by Guest | September 24, 2010 at 5:14 PM

    I usually don’t comment but I cant stand the stupidity. first off, Appaloosa is 2 P’s, not 1. as I said, we don’t have a marketing team. and if you listened to the interview, you heard no talk about consistent returns. you heard a big down year in 1998 and talk of being consistently inconsistent.

  24. Posted by ImSerious | September 24, 2010 at 5:22 PM

    “make me smell ponzi. ”

    I hope you burn for your stupidity.

  25. Posted by OhYa | September 24, 2010 at 5:36 PM

    I love bald guys with bald balls.

    P. Jiang

  26. Posted by Taburchett | September 24, 2010 at 5:41 PM

    He could be standing in a corner.

  27. Posted by tupac | September 24, 2010 at 5:54 PM

    I would have been more comfortable if I gotten a rabies shot before I watched that. Waws afraid Tepper was going to bite me.

  28. Posted by Pete Mitchell | September 24, 2010 at 5:54 PM

    Supposedly, the phrase “the whole nine yards” also has its origins in fighter-pilot speak (referring to the length of the ammo chain).

    The phrase “sweating like a whore in church” reportedly has no ties to the fighter jock community.

  29. Posted by James Dalton | September 24, 2010 at 7:05 PM

    Does Tepper Live in Short Hills or Livingston? I thought I saw him at the Rte 10 Costco along with Jim Cramer (although not together).

  30. Posted by Anonymous | September 24, 2010 at 7:23 PM

    He lives in Livingston and works in Short Hills.

  31. Posted by Anonymous | September 24, 2010 at 7:23 PM

    He lives in Livingston and works in Short Hills.

  32. Posted by James Dalton | September 24, 2010 at 7:26 PM

    Thanks. Not sure it was him would a guy like that really got to Costco? I know Cramer does. Can’t blame him. The deals are great.

  33. Posted by alejandro | September 24, 2010 at 7:46 PM

    The phrase actually originates from the 19th century as a pressure regulator on steam engines. Balls to the walls meant full power as the centrifugal force left the ball weights in a horizontal position pointing to the wall.

  34. Posted by Testie | September 24, 2010 at 8:20 PM

    My balls are long your chin. Am I allowed to say that?
    -Tepper

  35. Posted by Testie | September 24, 2010 at 8:20 PM

    My balls are long your chin. Am I allowed to say that?
    -Tepper

  36. Posted by guest | September 24, 2010 at 8:26 PM

    “inconsistently consistent” were his words. Before that “my long term record is actually pretty consistent” — which it has been. Not agreeing with the talk of “ponzi”..that just sounds naive..don’t know know much about his strategy. So instead of trying to point in the opposite direction, why don’t you comment on what has made him “inconsistently consistent”?

  37. Posted by Guest | September 24, 2010 at 8:26 PM

    does he live with his mother? referring to the odd ‘hi’ to mom in the video. awkward

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