Wall Street Financier: Notes from High Altitude©
He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
A statement by Steven Schwarzman to young recruits hopeful to work at BG in a Youtube video via Bloomberg let me think out loud: What a bunch of bullshit. How often do you hear this kind of lies told by top brass to grease your ears ? How often does …
A reader send me a link yesterday to a popular video asking me “Does this work ?” The video must be pretty popular (490K+ views since summer) and there’s a whole bunch of them, some of lengths of hours and hours. As you can see, the video is affirmations of …
We have a reader’s email today -Part 1- along with the video of a fit ex-Wall Street guy age 76, in Part 2- nobody’s going to say now that I write for millennials only… Sam writes: Max, I’m a guy of high standards. Yesterday I took a polygraph test. Guess what …
Since this is a winners strategy blog –the best strategy blog– with Wall Street roots, it should come as no surprise that many readers want to improve their skills and knowledge of situational, physical warfare. When I suggested former Navy Seal Clint Emerson’s book: 100 Deadly Skills, we got a …
Folks are writing me wanting to know how I start my workday, how to optimize their own lives. You want heuristics for better living, so I’ll suggest how a Wall Street winner -yours truly- structures his work area. To be clear, optimizing your environment means nothing if you don’t have …
In 2012 Greece got a haircut of privately-held debt of 59-65%. As a result of restructuring, Greece inched forward and 5 years later progress had been made. Greece’s economy is now growing faster than the UK. Venezuela seems to be close to a debt debacle and apparently no discussions, not even …
Perhaps you’ve read The Like Switch by Jack Schaffer, Ph.D and Marvin Karlins, Ph.D on How to get “liked”. If you haven’t, here’s a recap of the Friendship Formula in the book at the NY Post. I suppose these are behaviors you wanna adopt in cases of servitude, inferiority, when you’re begging …
I’ve watched executives exploit in anger -feigned anger that is- numerous times in order to win the show. One time, this guy start calling the team across the table the “Inquisition”: “You’ve forsaken all your children. You’ve thrown the baby out with the bathwater, you SOBs.” If only I had …
Today I will be answering a reader’s email: Max: My name is Tina (name redacted) and I wish to share my story with you. My story is heartbreaking and filled with tears and disappointments. I am 35 years old and have worked at a large hardware company for almost 4 …
Adam Bryant (NYT) takes inventory of his 525 Corner Office columns in his Oct. 27th, 2017 New York Times article How to Be A CEO. While looking for patterns to the corner office, Bryant himself comes to the conclusion there are “C.E.O.s who started out in theater, music and teaching. Others …
