Wall Street Financier: Notes from High Altitude©
He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
Interviewer: He, he, hey. This is [Bleep], your bond trader and Max fan. Lock up your daughters and horses, cause we have Max Cantor today for you. Max, thanks for doing a Q&A with me today. This is our third, isn’t it ? Max Cantor: It is. It is the …
In a Wall Street Jornal article today Secret Formula, Intelligence Tests Fuel Buyout Firm Miriam Gotfried and Laura Cooper detail some procedures behind Vista Equity Partners’s hiring and operating. VEP is a highly successful software buyout firm. (for a list of the biggest PE firms in the world, head over to PEI 300). …
MOI (Manual of Ideas) Global is an invitation-only events and member publications for the value investing community. Yesterday WSJ published a front-page article about the performance of Greenlight Capital, David Einhorn‘s hedge fund. The Fund lost 18.7% through the year. Daniel Gladies from MOI also published an article same day, …
I have five friends (including two mentors), 30 close-circle relationships (I drop ex-girlfriends like flies) including family and perhaps as many as 50 other “significant” acquaintances. 5000 enemies and counting (Hello, there !). Question: Should I turn some of these enemies into friends, because I seem to be friend-poor ? …
A year ago I opened the blog to comments. And what a faithful day that was. Today we will be featuring our first guest writer, Tom. Tom won a reader’s poll against Bill, a pro golf trainer, who was standing by to submit his golf tips. When I asked Tom… …
I recently started following BBC Future and I found an interesting article on the “Surprising Reason Why People Change Their Minds.” “Kristin Laurin of the University of British Columbia examined people’s attitudes before plastic water bottles were prohibited in San Francisco. The ban wasn’t favoured by everyone, but was introduced nonetheless. …
I am strong believer in the equality of rights between men and women. Unfortunately we see men toiling in the dust of the middle ages. Men are afraid to call a spade a spade. Men have been digging themselves into a hole, sometimes because of lack of character, and often …
Forgetfulness is a high evolutionary trait in the alpha male. You’ve read it right: forgetfulness (not forginevess). Not a misprint. If you know how to forget easily and often, guess what: you are evolving better and stronger. The goal of this blog is betterment, evolutionary progress, strenght-building and self-actualization. Towards …
A Silicon Valley entrepreneur sent me a link to an article on AEI and said that is exactly how he hires people. What stands for the AEI initials ? “Colloquially called ‘the Qs,’ the AEI tests three variables: Adaptability quotient (AQ) Emotional quotient (EQ) Intellectual quotient (IQ) While each ‘Q’ …
I have previously listed the 12 Rules from the 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos book and here are my notes and underlines. You can now scroll down to the bottom for my message to Jordan Peterson. Jordan Peterson is a prolific author, bookphile and speaker and his …
