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could somebody rank the i-banks please |
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Hungarian Poets working in Investment Banks |
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07/05/1999 |
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The above quote was from the most famous Hungarian poet, Sandor Petofi. Obviously, it was not on the reading list at your Ivy League School. Another quote comes to mind: "Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than speak out and remove all doubt." It was said my Abraham Lincoln. He was a kind of a Big Mac in his own time (just so that you can relate to him). |
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I have to hold my hand up and say that during my Ivy League Computer Science degree course I skipped the "19th Century Hungarian poetry" class, and therefore I will concede your education is superior to mine. Investment Banks need more people like you, winning business and creating trading revenues by unleashing a devilish wit and razor-sharp repartee on clients, rather than the old fashioned approach of hiring all these boring graduates with degrees overly dependent on numeracy and analysis. Then again some might say that quoting a Hungarian poet who's been dead 150 years (in his native language so the majority of visitors to this site won't understand) as a method for asserting your intellectual superiority is the behaviour of a pompous snob who needs to pull his head out of his backside. Two possibilities: take your pick.
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