David Hewlett: Grant Jansky

Quotes 

• Jack Larkin : I don't know if you remember me. I don't know if we were ever actually....

  Grant Jansky : Jack Larkin. Vancouver-based trader. August 18, 1992. Copper forwards. I took you for ninety-six thousand, seven hundred and forty-eight dollars. And a few pennies. Were you hedged?

  Jack Larkin : No.

  Grant Jansky : Sorry.

• Grant Jansky : I've got a few wants and needs that most people consider peculiar. I don't want pressure. I don't want money. I don't want any bright light. I don't want any people around. And I want... a lot of chocolate.

  Jack Larkin : Okay. I can give you all those things.

  Grant Jansky : [triumphantly]  Fifty pounds of chocolate!

• [Jack walks Grant into his new office--a computer in a supply closet.] 

  Jack Larkin : This is our current capital.

  Grant Jansky : Going down.

  Jack Larkin : Yeah, thanks to Brit Rail. This is our capital requirement. You have three hours to make roughly 1.8 million dollars. Here you go.

  [to Donald] 

  Jack Larkin : Don't put any pressure on him, okay?

• Jack Larkin : Do you have a father?

  Grant Jansky : Everyone has a father, Jack.

  Jack Larkin : Is he alive?

  Grant Jansky : Would I be like this if he was?

  Jack Larkin : [flicks his eyes to Grant's computer]  What is that?

  Grant Jansky : It's chaos. Fluctuations in wheat prices since March of '29.

  Jack Larkin : Finding order in chaos. That's what it's all about.

  Grant Jansky : It's beautiful. You have a dad?

  Jack Larkin : Everyone's got a dad, Grant.