Goldman Sachs

“There's a reason that Goldman Sachs, the average tenure is two and a half years.”

“If you work for a big company or a company with a good name, that can last you Like, decades. I haven't worked at Goldman Sachs since, like, 2008, and I was, like, a peon analyst nobody back then, and yet the first thing people say about me still is that I wor…”

“Goldman Sachs used to cut 20% of its staff every single year, no matter what.”

“They were really good at a thing you should never feel bad for doing. Which is self-promotion if you are good for real things you did.”

“Like, AI voice bankers who say they work at Goldman Sachs, who will trick you on the phone to tell you that their purchaser has all the money in the world. They submit offers, and then the deposit doesn't show up, and they waste all your time. We have sham buy…”

“I do look back at my days at, like, Goldman Sachs, and they cut the 20% of everybody every year.”

“Another stupid thing I did, which is a company like Goldman Sachs should never be sold.”

“Warren paid 130 dollars a share at that time for Goldman Sachs during the financial crisis.”

“I bought it at 65 dollars a share, ok? Half of Warren's price.”

“The only reason anybody, anybody buys anything is exclusivity, timeliness, scarcity relevance. And he's like, if you can figure out a way to wrap all four of those around whatever you do, you'll be able to sell more and more frequently and with less struggle.”

“And so the only thing I could figure out how to do was be in there earlier than everybody else and stay later than everybody else. That's literally all I had. But damn if that wasn't enough. And you know, of course one of the MDs sort of You know, saw me there…”