If you could have dinner with anyone, dead or alive, who would you choose?
Choose 5 guests, if possible please explain the reasons behind the invites. They don't have to be related to the industry fyi.
Mine would be:
Aliko Dangote, Angela Merkel, Ben Bernanke, Ivan Glasenberg and Ray Dalio
if you could have dinner with anyone...
Some picks from the WSO community. Which include some names that you expect to see on such a list.
If Wall street could talk to anyone.... here's the short list.....
- Miss Universe in 2083
- Charlie Munger
- Dick Fuld.
- Alexander Hamilton
- Old Man Marley from Home Alone
- John Rockefeller
- Eddie Murphy (from the '80's)
- Adriana Lima
- Ronnie James Dio
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no one said jesus
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I would have a hard time choosing only five from BI's list of top 27 HBS profiles :)
LOL, you forgot the "xoxo"
Peter Thiel, Nassim Taleb, Ayn Rand, Marcus Aurelius, Seneca.
I hope you are fluent in Latin for the last two.
leonardo da vinci, genghis khan, srinivasa ramanujan, socrates, nikola tesla
Dead: Alexander The Great, Hannibal, von Clausewitz, Napoleon, Benedict Arnold, Alexander Hamilton, Ahmad Shah Massoud, Amado Carillo Fuentes, and Pablo Escobar.
Alive: Viktor Bout, Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman Loera, Bill Gross, Jamie Dimon, Erik Prince, Dick Cheney, Cofer Black and Leon Panetta
@amphipathic: Happy to see someone even knows seneca.
Five is extremely tough but;
Umberto Eco, Taleb, Keynes, Newton, and Johnnie walker (or someone similar)
Thank goodness for The Black Swan introducing me to him (and Umberto Eco)
Haha, I knew that's how! I saw Taleb on your list too, but didn't want to make such a bold induction.
I actually read Eco before Black Swan. If you can read Focault's Pendulum and understand half of the historical references made, you have to be one hell of a renaissance man. He's a genius.
no one said jesus
Us Yids do not believe in such things.
All we'd need is water to drink
Damn, ok how about Jesus, Hitler, Bush, Gandhi and... Steve Jobs?
Ronnie James Dio, Pete Townshend, Peter Kreeft, Leo Tolstoy, and Doris Yeh.
^ This is all assuming they wouldn't all kill each other, of course. I'd just sit back, stuff my face, and just watch.
You guys are going about this the wrong way. Arnold Schwarzenegger & I will be grabbing dinner with Kate Beckinsale, Scarlett Johannson, Adriana Lima, and Katherine Webb.
Leonardo Dicaprio, Leonardo Da Vinci, King Henry VIII, Bob Marley, Spartacus
DiCaprio, Mark Wahlberg, JT, Damon, and Clooney. If you got into that crew you'd be set for life
Tom Cruise, anybody?
Eddie Murphy (from the '80's), Sofia Vergara, Isaac Newton, Billy Corgan, and my Dad.
I almost created this post a few months back and just never got around to it.
Anyways, I would go with Socrates, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, Milton Friedman and Thomas Sowell.
Pablo Escobar also sounds interesting.
Regards
Depends on the context of the dinner...
If you're asking whose beliefs and fucking anecdotes I am most willing to suffer through for an entire evening (the scenario most of you seem to be responding to): Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich Nietzsche, Ayn Rand, Andrew Carnegie, Stefan Molyneux
If you mean who I'd like to have around a table to fucking enjoy myself with: Mark Twain, Oscar Wilde, Winston Churchill, Christopher Hitchens, Dorthy Parker. Greatest dinner conversation you've never heard!
FTFY
Alive- Mark Wahlberg, Ron Paul, (met him, but briefly) Jennifer Lawrence, Steve Schwarzman, and other finance guys I'm forgetting right now
Dead- Mises, Murray Rothbard, George Washington, Milton Freidman..I'm sure I'll think of others later
That sounds like a really unpleasant time for both Mises and Friedman.
Which reminds meet- John Locke is another I'd like to add
@amphipathic: Yeah, it is very very good and will make you want to learn more stuff. Pretty challenging, even in terms of its diction but mainly just the vast amount of content that he sort of "expects" you to know. Once you get going though it is awesome.
Dr. Mike Burry, Nicolaus Copernicus, Jeremy Clarkson, Harry Houdini, and Tom Brady.
I feel like adding brady4mvp to the list just bc/I wanna know if this person is for real or the troll of the century
Phil Hartman and Margaret Thatcher...
Genghis Khan, Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Bruce Lee, Nelson Mandela, Albert Einstein
Honorable mentions that I wouldn't mind changing for the other five mentioned above: Nikolas Tesla, Abraham Lincoln, Bob Marley, Johnny Cash, Jimi Hendrix, Isaac Newton
Post-dinner time: Emiilia clarke, Megan Fox, Scarlette Johasson, the 'Game of Thrones' female cast, Margot Robbie
My father, mother, sister and her two kids.
They live on the other side of the planet and I usually only get to see them in person 1-2 times a year.
EDIT: Actually, I'd drop the younger niece and take my great-grandfather instead. He was a magistrate in Papua New Guinea in the early 1900s and was accused of rape, cannibalism and head souveniring, as well as being part of a few massacres of natives. I would like to dig deeper into these stories.
Charlie Munger
Ayrton Senna, Steve Jobs, Peter Thiel, Alan Turing, James Simons.
No real need to explain, those are 5 people I personally think I could learn quite a bit from.
Cornelius Vanderbilt, John Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, J.P. Morgan and Lloyd Tevis
Yeah good points above on the family, but family stuff aside...
Old Man Marley from Home Alone, Phil Helmuth, HH Dalai Lama, Audrey Hepburn, and whoever wins Miss Universe in 2083 (no trannys).
alive people... I would definitely have dinner with alive people.. I imagine that dead people are not as lively as I like..
Miss Universe 2009, Miss Universe 2010, Miss Universe 2012, Miss Universe 2013, and Miss Universe 2014. not that difficult.
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