Success Quote by Rene Rivkin

A weekend is supposed to be relief; Rivkin flips it into withdrawal. The line works because it takes a culturally protected idea - time off - and treats it like an intolerable market closure, as if normal life is a trading halt. The bluntness ("I hate") isn’t just comic exaggeration; it’s a confession of dependency dressed up as a joke. He’s not saying he loves finance in the abstract. He’s saying the market provides a structure for his nervous system: prices move, information arrives, decisions get made, dopamine gets dispensed.

Coming from Rivkin, a flamboyant Australian stockbroker and media personality later convicted of insider trading, the quote carries extra bite. It’s the sound of a man whose identity is fused to the scoreboard. Weekdays offer constant narrative: winners, losers, rumors, reversals. Weekends are narrative silence, which is unbearable if you’ve built your self-worth on being early, right, and in motion.

The subtext is also about power. Markets don’t just generate money; they generate alibis. If you’re always watching the tape, you’re always "working", always urgent, always justified. The weekend threatens to expose what the trading week can mask: restlessness, emptiness, maybe even conscience.

Culturally, it captures late-20th-century finance as lifestyle: the shift from investing as a tool to trading as entertainment, a 24/5 reality show where the only unacceptable outcome is stillness. Rivkin’s complaint isn’t that the market stops. It’s that he has to.