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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Amphipathic:
bengigi:

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.

Too late for second-guessing Too late to go back to sleep.
 

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

"Come at me, bro"- José de Palafox y Melci
 
streetwannabe:

@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)

 
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Amphipathic:
streetwannabe:

@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 If you can read Focault's Pendulum and understand half of the historical references made, you have to be one hell of a renaissance man.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.

"History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme."
 

no one said jesus

"For I am a sinner in the hands of an angry God. Bloody Mary full of vodka, blessed are you among cocktails. Pray for me now and at the hour of my death, which I hope is soon. Amen."
 
duffmt6:

no one said jesus

Damn, ok how about Jesus, Hitler, Bush, Gandhi and... Steve Jobs?

[quote]The HBS guys have MAD SWAGGER. They frequently wear their class jackets to boston bars, strutting and acting like they own the joint. They just ooze success, confidence, swagger, basically attributes of alpha males.[/quote]
 

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.

Commercial Real Estate Developer
 

Tom Cruise, anybody?

[quote]The HBS guys have MAD SWAGGER. They frequently wear their class jackets to boston bars, strutting and acting like they own the joint. They just ooze success, confidence, swagger, basically attributes of alpha males.[/quote]
 

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

"The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant, it's just that they know so much that isn't so." - Ronald Reagan
 

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!

“Millionaires don't use astrology, billionaires do”
 
Nouveau Richie:

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, Olivia Wilde, Winston Churchill, Christopher Hitchens, Dorthy Parker. Greatest dinner conversation you've never heard!

FTFY

"You stop being an asshole when it sucks to be you." -IlliniProgrammer "Your grammar made me wish I'd been aborted." -happypantsmcgee
 

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

"There are only two opinions in this world: Mine and the wrong one." -Jeremy Clarkson
 
jon1987:

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.

“Millionaires don't use astrology, billionaires do”
 
Nouveau Richie:
jon1987:

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.

We'd have to make that one a separate date rofl. I do like both of them, but you're right that the two of them wouldn't get along all that well. Personally, I'm closer to Rothbard due to my views on things like war and what not, but I'd still like to meet other classical liberal and libertarian thinkers.

Which reminds meet- John Locke is another I'd like to add

"There are only two opinions in this world: Mine and the wrong one." -Jeremy Clarkson
 

@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.

"History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme."
 

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

"Suffer today and live the rest of your life as a champion!"
 

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.

Those who can, do. Those who can't, post threads about how to do it on WSO.
 

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