harvard came from behind 16 with just a couple minutes left to tie the game, but it felt like a Harvard win with the
Business Quotes
Investment bankers and lawyers as hired guns
Today, however, the decision by an investment bank to underwrite a security no longer represents a sincere institutional judgement that investors should hold a
John Mack vs. Phil Purcell, As competing CEOs
What retail does have in common with banking is that it is all about sales…Mack was a proud, gruff man. In the instances that
Old standards at Goldman/Weinberg
Goldman would not back gambling companies, because they were thought to provide no benefit to society.
Housing regulators
In 2004, Alan Greenspan, then the chairman, said the rise in home values was ‘not enough in our judgment to raise major concerns.’ In
Ornette Coleman
I wasn’t so interested in being paid. I wanted to be heard. That’s why I’m broke.
J.P. Morgan motto from back in the day
Do first class business in a first class way.
David brooks, Defense Contractor, Spends 10M on bat mitvah
Maker of shoddy bulletproof vests. Pays for Aerosmith, Tom Petty, and 50 cent to appear at daughter’s birthday party.
Grifter on money as a way of keeping score
Money had no value to my dad. It just his way to keep score, to prove how smart he was outwitting the ‘suckers’.
Nathaniel Courthope
Accused of theft, he ended up heroically defending the island of run, which was preserved for England instead of the Dutch. The Dutch later