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Stryfe

Models. Bottles.

"I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature."
 
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Slash-Finance DickFuld:

Goldman Sachs: ass holes
JP Morgan: commercial bank
Morgan Stanley: Dean Witter
Lehman Brothers: phenomenal, innovative
Bear Stearns: poor, hungry
Merrill Lynch: stock brokers
Credit Suisse: former DLJ
Deutsche Bank: German owned

That about wraps it up. A couple more though:

UBS: No bonus
Well Fargo: Checking account

He asked about BB firms, not UBS and Wells Fargo.
 

Man Dick, Lehman bros doesn't hyperlink on WSO. It's like it's been erased from history.

"I know you think you understand what you thought I said but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant."
 

Accidentally hit reply on my post. Got monkey poop for it. Ruthless guys. Ruthless

"I know you think you understand what you thought I said but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant."
 

As a banking analyst, every BB can be summed up with the same two words:

"Spread 'em."

I am permanently behind on PMs, it's not personal.
 

The last 8 posts have potentially ruined this thread.

Frank Sinatra - "Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy."
 

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