Wall Street Financier: Notes from High Altitude©
He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
Jason Zweig, writer of the Intelligent Investor (WSJ) and editor of the revised Benjamin Graham’s The Intelligent Investor, put out an article last weekend on New Year’s Resolutions “Set The Bar High for Your 2018 Resolutions” Jason says that NY resolutions should be mid-level (not too easy but not that… …
Stardate 95605.01 Does that mean anything to you ? 34,200 Seconds. What’s that ? Huff, that is a lot of numbers. 01.01.2018 is the date, it might as well be the “stardate” (I used this site for the stardate, and Calculate me for the seconds into the day) Did you set up …
Best Villains of 2017 (you can vote anonymously). The winner will be announced in 30 days. Meanwhile, please make suggestions if there are additional contenders you wished posted here. Thanks ! 1. Donald Trump (Picture: ReviewJournal)Hometown: New York, NYBiggest lie: Too many to tellBig tell: There’ a simp born every minuteInvented: …
Peter H. Diamandis is the CEO of the XPRIZE (www.xprize.org), executive Chairman of the Singularity University ( https://su.org/ ) a Silicon Valley educational institution and incubator focused on exponential achievements, which is backed by Google, 3-D Systems and NASA. In his 2015 Best Seller “Bold” he writes about flow, building a DIY …
This is a second writing on motivation this year. You can read the first one here. Lots of people out there are frustrated with motivation. People fall though the cracks, they complain about losing momentum, they say motivation fails them, then complain about not having enough energy before they can …
Are you familiar with Kelly Johnson’s 14 Rules of Management ? Available at Lockheed Martin, these Rules were at the heart of the most successful aeronautical projects ever completed, such as the Lockheed U-2 and SR-71 Blackbird. These rules made the difference between completing a project on time and on …
A year ago I did a short Q&A with one of the smartest folks I know in the bond business. Time for Q&A Part II. Enjoy ! Interviewer: Max, a year has gone by and you remain shrouded in unfathomable mystery. Tell us how your year has been. Max: [Name …
This year I present you a Holiday Gift List that is as humble and as is useful, a list for all budgets. I think the GS Elevator unofficial Goldman Sachs Holiday Wish is as useless as a three-dollar bill. I don’t have an unlimited budget and probably neither do you. …
A friend named Serge called me recently with an idea. Here’s the call we had: Serge: Max, have you ever thought of doing a TED talk ? I think that would be good for you. Do you know about TED and TEDx ? Me: Of course I do. I feature …
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 …
