He cold-called 20-30 firms and managed to land a summer intern as a sophomore, generally considered less hirable.
It all started as sth trivial. Getting coffees and taking lunch orders. But it was all worth it. If you mess up orders, how are you gonna manage elephant traders later? People are judging all the time.
On securing a full-time: "Holy shit, I thought. I’ve made it to Wall Street, and it doesn’t get any bigger or better than this." Haha.
Gotta be thinking about how you can add value. As intern, he tried to do lunch runs and photocopies, summarize WSJ/Bloomberg news and aggregate data just to make his bosses' life easier.
Friends from college would turn out to be business partners.
On not paying strippers: words travel fast on Wall Street.
Need to spot your go-to people.
Being book-smart and accurate at trading is enough not for every long. to keep the game going and move up the corporate ladder and eventually become respected leaders, you gotta be skilled at human interaction
Warren Buffet's pep talk after agreeing to pump cash into GS: The first time he went to GS, he was ten and had respected the firm ever since. Warren is surly the investment guru. Hanks down.
My heart was racing while reading the chapter about the crisis. The author had a front row seat to what was happening....
On MD's conscience talk on subway: “I’m just wondering what’s going to happen if the whole ship goes down,” Doug said. He was talking numbly, still staring, as if he were in a trance. “All these guys in finance making two million a year—where are they going to go? What’s our value to society? What skills have we developed?” He shook his head. “Society doesn’t need us,” he said. “We’ll be lucky if we can find something for eighty grand a year. I’m going to tell my kids to go into the sciences.”
I ate at Supper once. Would recommend it to couples on a date.
I also need a heathy routine:I started exercising almost every day (running; not Zumba), cut out all alcohol for weeks, and stopped eating all the beef lo-mein and pastrami sandwiches that had become the staples of my diet while I was glued to my desk during the crisis. An older salesman had years earlier dispensed some great advice to our team: Eat Light, Feel Right. Slowly, I started to feel right.
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阅读+笔记+词汇:16hr 16min
PS: 建议小伙伴们去Amazon看书评。写的人更多,而且不比豆瓣差。
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