Salomon Quotes

Salomon saith, There is no new thing upon the earth. So that as Plato had an imagination, that all knowledge was but remembrance; so Salomon giveth his sentence, that all novelty is but oblivion.

The manner in which Epictetus, Montaigne, and Salomon de Tultie wrote, is the most usual, the most suggestive, the most remembered, and the oftener quoted; because it is entirely composed of thoughts born from the common talk of life.

What Gutfreund said has become a legend at Salomon Brothers and a visceral part of its corporate identity. He said: “One hand, one million dollars, no tears.

Salomon saith, There is no new thing upon the earth. So that as Plato had an imagination, that all knowledge was but remembrance; so Salomon giveth his sentence, that all novelty is but oblivion.

A man must be a Salomon before his magical ring will work. (Hafiz)

If there was a single lesson I took away from Salomon Brothers, it is that rarely do all parties win. The nature of the game is zero sum. A dollar out of my customer’s pocket was a dollar in ours, and vice versa.

[Who are the artists you admire, Surrealist or otherwise?] Remedios Varo, Max Ernst, Charlotte Salomon, Goya, Aubrey Beardsley. Beardsley is not so much about the impossible as he is about freaks and deformities, but those are interesting to me too.

And, as I would learn later on in my life - at Salomon Brothers and in my own company - it's the "doers", the lean and hungry ones, those with ambition in their eyes and fire in their bellies and no notions of social caste, who go the furthest and achieve the most.

Donnie Green himself had been a trader at Salomon Brothers in the dark ages, when traders had more hair on their chests than on their heads.

Man transcends himself only via his true nature, not through ambition and artificial goals.

The Piranha didn’t talk like a person. He said things like “If you fuckin’ buy this bond in a fuckin’ trade, you’re fuckin’ fucked.” And “If you don’t pay fuckin’ attention to the fuckin’ two-year, you get your fuckin’ face ripped off.” Noun, verb, adjective: fucker, fuck, fucking. No part of speech was spared. His world was filled with copulating inanimate objects and people getting their faces ripped off.

Sometimes it pays to stay in bed on Monday, rather than spending the rest of the week debugging Monday's code.

We must, for instance, face the fact that we blandly commit what to the experimentalist is the most unpardonable of sins: we include the experimenter in the experiment!

A man must be a Salomon before his magical ring will work

A big bonus was about as well concealed on the Salomon Brothers trading floor as the results of a hot date in a high school boys’ locker room.

Y si uno se niega a recordar sus sueños, uno se niega realmente a encarar su propia existencia -a encarar lo que está mal en su existencia. Uno evita luchar con asuntos desagradables.

I have this theory," says Andy Stone, seated in his office at Prudential-Bache Securities. "Wall Street makes its best producers into managers. The reward for being a good producer is to be made a manager. The best producers are cutthroat, competitive, and often neurotic and paranoid. You turn those people into managers, and they go after each other. They no longer have the outlet for their instincts that producing gave them. They usually aren't well suited to be managers. Half of them get thrown out because they are bad. Another quarter get muscled out because of politics. The guys left behind are just the most ruthless of the bunch. That's why there are cycles on Wall Street—why Salomon Brothers is getting crunched now—because the ruthless people are bad for the business but can only be washed out by proven failure.

The difference between Strauss and Ranieri?” says one trader still at Salomon. “That’s easy. Strauss wouldn’t stoop to use the men’s room on the trading floor. He’d go upstairs. Lewie would piss on your desk.

People may be understood through the art they produce or by descriptions from friends and family, by observation, or through their dreams.

Every individual, every plant, every animal has only one inborn goal—to actualize itself as it is.

Se questo mondo fosse un piano infinito e navigando a oriente noi potessimo sempre raggiungere nuove distanze e scoprire cose più dolci e nuove di tutte le Cicladi o le Isole del Re Salomone, allora il viaggio conterrebbe una promessa. Ma, nell'inseguire quei lontani misteri di cui sogniamo, o nella caccia tormentosa di quel fantasma demoniaco che prima o poi nuota dinanzi a tutti i cuori umani, nella caccia di tali cose intorno a questo globo, esse o ci conducono in vuoti labirinti o ci lasciano sommersi a metà strada.

And with dream-awakened eyes, she saw all the beauty around her, saw the sea, felt the sun, and knew she had to vanish for a while from the human plane and make every sacrifice in order to create her world anew out of the depths.

Психотик говорит: «Я – Авраам Линкольн», невротик: «Мне бы хотелось быть таким, как Авраам Линкольн», здоровый: «Я – таковой, какой я есть».

En pleine bagarre, vous vous en tenez au strict nécessaire, à savoir étriper l’adversaire en faisant en sorte que ce dernier ne vous arrache pas les bras pour vous assommer avec.

Awareness is like the glow of a coal which comes from its own combustion... In awareness a process is taking place in the coal (the total organism).

By remaining alert in the centre, we can acquire a creative ability of seeing both sides of an occurrence and completing an incomplete half.

Meriwether was the King of the Game, the Liar’s Poker champion of the Salomon Brothers’ trading floor. On

Comme les pêches et les melons sount pour la bouche d'un baron, ainsi les verges et les bâtons sont pour les fous, dit Salomon.

Während Wissenschaftler wissen, dass sie nur etwas "glauben" (= für "wahr" halten), was heute angemessen erscheint, morgen aber möglicherweise schon überholt ist, glauben Gläubige, etwas zu wissen, was auch morgen noch gültig sein soll, obwohl es in der Regel schon heute widerlegt ist.

Apart from detailed analysis and taking apart (destruction), there can be no close contact, excited discovery, and true love of any object (which, as we use the term, always includes persons).

My heart sank. It’s hard to describe how small $50,000 is to an investment banker. Linda Evangelista, a supermodel from the 1980s and 1990s, once famously declared, “I don’t get out of bed for less than ten thousand dollars a day.” For an investment banker, that number is more like $1 million. But here I was having earned nothing for Salomon, and $50,000 was that much more than zero, so I agreed.

Thomas Jefferson thought that the United States ought to have a revolution every generation so that democracy could periodically purge itself of contaminants. He meant political revolutions; we have watered down his advice and created a succession of “lifestyle” revolutions instead. Just at the point when a radical innovation or movement might begin to elicit significant discussion within our social order, it makes the cover of Time and receives testimonials from one or two Hollywood stars. Thus elevated into harmlessness, it is soon discarded, leaving little more than a vague, residual stain on our cultural fashions.

Gut und Böse sind banale, substanzlose Begriffe, die die Wirklichkeit weit eher verschleiern, als dass sie diese erhellen. Dies allein wäre schon Grund genug, sie aufzugeben. Wichtiger jedoch ist, dass der Gut-versus-Böse-Memplex in der menschlichen Kulturgeschichte immer wieder dazu diente, Menschengruppen gegeneinander aufzuhetzen.

Salomon saith, There is no new thing upon the earth. So that as Plato had an imagination, that all knowledge was but remembrance; so Salomon giveth his sentence, that all novelty is but oblivion. Francis Bacon: Essays, LVIII

The moment Salomon Brothers demonstrated the potential gains to be had from turning an investment bank into a public corporation and leveraging its balance sheet with exotic risks, the psychological foundations of Wall Street shifted, from trust to blind faith.

Las emociones no son molestias que deban ser descargadas. Las emociones son los motores más importantes de nuestro comportamiento: emoción en el sentido más amplio -la espera, el goce, el hambre. Estas emociones o energía básica, esta fuerza vital, aparentemente se diferencian en el organismo por lo que llamo la diferenciación

Deutschland brannte dunkel in verwegenen Hirnen. Deutschland war da, wo um es gerungen wurde, es zeigte sich, wo bewehrte Hände nach seinem Bestande griffen, es strahlte grell, wo die Besessenen seines Geistes um Deutschlands willen den letzten Einsatz wagten. Deutschland war an der Grenze. Die Artikel des Versailler Friedens sagten uns, wo Deutschland war.

I do not remember my dreams of animals.

Alimentan su computadora, el intelecto. Y el intelecto es la punta de la inteligencia. Un estorbo en la vida.

La angustia es siempre resultado del alejarse del ahora.

Es muy raro que las personas puedan hablar y escuchar. Muy pocas escuchan sin hablar. La mayoría puede hablar sin escuchar.

Забрави часовете на нуждата, но не забравяй на какво са те научили.

War had taken hold of them and would never let them go. They would never really belong to their homes again. The war was over ... but the armies were still in being.

Fear is excitement without the breath.

UNA VISIÓN es un objetivo preciso y claramente definido, con un plan detallado y programado en el tiempo para alcanzar dicho objetivo.

Wall Street makes its best producers into managers. The reward for being a good producer is to be made a manager. The best producers are cutthroat, competitive, and often neurotic and paranoid. You turn those people into managers, and they go after each other. They no longer have the outlet for their instincts that producing gave them. They usually aren’t well suited to be managers. Half of them get thrown out because they are bad. Another quarter get muscled out because of politics. The guys left behind are just the most ruthless of the bunch. That’s why there are cycles on Wall Street—why Salomon Brothers is getting crunched now—because the ruthless people are bad for the business but can only be washed out by proven failure.

When Grant made Edward S. Salomon governor of the Washington Territory, it was the first time an American Jew had occupied a gubernatorial post. (When Salomon proved corrupt, Grant handled his case leniently, letting him resign.) Elated at this appointment, Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise said it showed “that President Grant has revoked General Grant’s notorious order No. 11.

The moment Salomon Brothers demonstrated the potential gains to be had from turning an investment bank into a public corporation and leveraging its balance sheet with exotic risks, the psychological foundations of Wall Street shifted, from trust to blind faith. No investment bank owned by its employees would have leveraged itself 35:1, or bought and held $50 billion in mezzanine CDOs.

By the 1850s enslavers had their eyes on expansion into Cuba in order to expand Southern political power. Here we see an idyllic image of a Cuba tobacco plantation, plus the idea of “Southern rights” being used to sell cigars. “Southerner rights segars. Expressly manufactured for Georgia & Alabama by Salomon Brothers. Fabrica de tabacos, de superior calidad de la vuelta-abajo,” Broadside, 1859.

Cada vez que usan las palabras ahora y cómo y se dan cuenta de esto, entonces crecen. Cada vez que hacen la pregunta por qué, disminuyen de estatura. Se joden a sí mismos con información falsa e innecesaria.

L'Ecclésiaste vous nomme Toute-Puissance, les Macchabées vous nomment Créateur, l'Épître aux Éphésiens vous nomme Liberté, Baruch vous nomme Immensité, les Psaumes vous nomment Sagesse et Vérité, Jean vous nomme Lumière, les Rois vous nomment Seigneur, l'Exode vous appelle Providence, le Lévitique Sainteté, Esdras Justice, la création vous nomme Dieu, l'homme vous nomme Père; mais Salomon vous nomme Miséricorde, et c'est là le plus beau de tous vos noms.

Washington is an example of the citizen-politician who goes to the capital of his state or nation, serves a few terms, and returns to civilian life – just as the Founding Fathers practiced and intended. Sadly, this has been almost completely disregarded by the pervasive career politicians of later generations. The current practice of politicians is to gain elected government positions and then refuse to honor voluntary term limits, thus obtaining lifetime security and prestige, exemption from laws legislated on others, and inappropriate padding of personal income through gifts from lobbyists, self-initiated increases in benefits, and lifetime pensions. Their lifestyles would shock and embarrass a selfless man like George Washington, who served eight years as commander in chief, accepting only expense reimbursements as his compensation. (See the stories on Haym Salomon and Dave Roever similar examples). On

There are now little brass plaques on the ground outside this address. These are Stolpersteine. Tributes to the victims of the Holocaust. There are many of them in Berlin, especially in Charlottenburg. They are not easy to spot. You must walk with your head down, seeking memories between the cobblestones. In front of 15 Wielandstrasse, three names can be read. Paula, Albert, and Charlotte. But on the wall, there is only one commemorative plaque. The one for Charlotte Salomon.

La incomodidad se deja ver bien a menudo. La incomodidad es siempre un síntoma de falta de honestidad. Si uno no se expresa derechamente, honestamente, entonces se siente incómodo. En el mismo momento en que uno se expresa adecuadamente, desaparece la incomodidad.

nomment Sagesse et Vérité, Jean vous nomme Lumière, les Rois vous nomment Seigneur, l’Exode vous appelle Providence, le Lévitique Sainteté, Esdras Justice, la création vous nomme Dieu, l’homme vous nomme Père ; mais Salomon vous nomme Miséricorde, et c’est là le plus beau de tous vos noms. » Vers neuf heures du soir, les deux femmes se retiraient et montaient à leurs chambres au premier, le laissant jusqu’au matin seul au rez-de-chaussée. Ici il est nécessaire que nous donnions une idée exacte du logis de M. l’évêque de Digne. q

Todas las emociones se expresan en el sistema muscular. No se puede visualizar la ira sin movimiento muscular. No se puede visualizar la alegría, que es más o menos idéntica al danzar, sin movimientos musculares. En la pena hay sollozos y llanto, y en el sexo también hay

Es ist prinzipiell so, dass Nicht-Existenzen nicht bewiesen werden können! Man könnte behaupten, unser Universum sei in Wahrheit der Verdauungstrakt eines gigantischen, blaugestreiften und doch unsichtbaren Kobolds namens "Gaga Gugelhurz" - und niemand könnte die Nicht-Existenz dieses imaginären Wesens beweisen. Allerdings: Ein solcher Beweis wäre auch nicht notwendig! Warum? Weil nicht derjenige, der die Existenz des Gugelhurz oder des christlichen Gottes bestreitet, Beweise anbringen muss, sondern derjenige, der solch gewagte Thesen vertritt.

من وجهة نظر أدبية بحتة، القرآن لا يمتلك أيّة ميّزات أو مزايا. كلام خطابي، تكرار، عبارات طفولية، افتقار تام للمنطق والتناسق يصدم القارئ عند كل منعطف فيه. من الغريب والمهين جداً للذكاء والفطنة البشرية الاعتقاد أنّ هذا النوع من الأدب العادي كان موضوع تفسيرات وأبحاث وتأويلات لا تحصى، وأنّ ملايين البشر ما زالوا يهدرون وقتهم بالاستغراق فيه

In the two decades after I left, I waited for the end of Wall Street as I had known it. The outrageous bonuses, the endless parade of rogue traders, the scandal that sank Drexel Burnham, the scandal that destroyed John Gutfreund and finished off Salomon Brothers, the crisis following the collapse of my old boss John Meriwether’s Long-Term Capital Management, the Internet bubble: Over and over again, the financial system was, in some narrow way, discredited. Yet the big Wall Street banks at the center of it just kept on growing, along with the sums of money that they doled out to twenty-six-year-olds to perform tasks of no obvious social utility. The rebellion by American youth against the money culture never happened. Why bother to overturn your parents’ world when you can buy it and sell off the pieces?

From the literary point of view, the Koran has little merit. Declamation, repetition, puerility, a lack of logic and coherence strike the unprepared reader at every turn. It is humiliating to the human intellect to think that this mediocre literature has been the subject of innumerable commentaries, and that millions of men are still wasting time in absorbing it." (Orpheus, Salmon Reinach, 1932. See page 175 of the book here)

As Reagan’s first budget director, Stockman, a former two-term congressman from Michigan, was the point man for the supply-side economics the new administration was pushing— the theory that taxes should be lowered to stimulate economic activity, which would in turn produce more tax revenue to compensate for the lower rates. With his wonky whiz-kid persona, computer-like mental powers, and combative style, he browbeat Democratic congressmen and senators who challenged his views. But he soon incurred the wrath of political conservatives when he confessed to Atlantic reporter William Greider that supply-side economics was really window dressing for reducing the rates on high incomes. Among other acts of apostasy, he called doctrinaire supply-siders “naive.” The 1981 article created a sensation and prompted Reagan to ask him over lunch, “You have hurt me. Why?” Stockman famously described the meeting as a “trip to the woodshed.” Though the president himself forgave him, Stockman’s loose lips undercut his power at the White House, and in 1985 he left government to become an investment banker at Salomon Brothers.

E Salomon Morel? No fim de contas, foi uma figura deste período apenas num sentido: como muita gente que atravessou os horrores da guerra e a confusão dos anos do pós-guerra, desempenhou diferentes papéis em diferentes narrativas nacionais em diferentes momentos. Foi uma vítima do holocausto, um criminoso comunista, um homem que perdeu toda a sua família às mãos dos nazis e um homem consumido por uma raiva sádica a alemães e polacos - uma raiva que pode ou não ter sido originada pela sua vitimização e pode ou não ter estado ligada ao seu comunismo. Foi profundamente vingativo e profundamente violento. Foram-lhe atribuídas medalhas pelo Estado comunista polaco, foi processado pelo Estado polaco pós-comunista e toi detendido pelo Estado de Israel, embora não tivesse manifestado interesse em mudar-se para Israel senão meio século depois da guerra e mesmo isso só depois de ter começado a temer que o julgassem. A sua história, ao fim e ao cabo, nada prova sobre judeus ou polacos. Só prova como é difícil emitir juízos sobre as pessoas que viveram na parte mais estilhaçada da Europa durante as piores décadas do século XX.

Among those troops that I had joined were plenty of regular units with reliable officers, crowds of restless adventurers on the lookout for a fight and with it the chances of loot and relaxation of ordinary rules of conduct. Patriots could not bear the idea of break down of law and order at home and wish to guard the frontiers from the incursion of the Red Flood. There was the Baltic Landswehr, recruited from the local gentry who were determined at all cost to save their 700 year old traditions, their noble and vigorous yet fastidious culture, the Eastern bulwark of German civilization. And there were German battalions consisting of men who wanted to settle in the country who were hungering for land. Of troops desiring to fight for the existing government there were none. The like-minded ones were soon dissociated from general mass which was swept eastwards by crash of Western front. We seemed suddenly to have collected as if a secret signal. We found ourselves apart from the crowd. Knowing neither what we are we sought not gold. The blood suddenly ran hotly through our veins and called us to adventure and hazard. Drove us to wandering and danger. And herded together those of us who realized our profound kinship with one another. We were a band of warriors, extravagant in our demands, triumphantly definite in our decisions. What we wanted we did not know, but what we knew we did not want. To force our way through the prisoning walls of the world. To march over burning field, to stamp over ruins and scattered ashes, to dash recklessly through wild forests, over blasted heaps to push, conquer, eat our way towards the East, to the white hot dark cold land that stretched between ourselves and Asia. Was that what we wanted? I do not know if that was our desire and they was what we did. And the search for reasons why was lost in the tumult of the continuous fighting.

Of course it was not only the law that interfered with our management of the paper. The politicians, too, soon took a hand. The Oberpräsident of Schleswig-Holstein, a man named Kürbis (which is German for pumpkin) forbad its publication; it appeared the next day, entitled Die Westküste [The West Coat]. This too was banned, and for a short time my brother's wish was fulfilled and we edited Die Grüne Front. I, too, had the gratification of seeing my original suggestion realised whn it became, in due course, Die Sturmglocke. Finally, the Oberpräsident forbad us from publishing any paper at all which was not purely concerned with technical agricultural matters. So we rechristened it Der Kürbis, aand the leading article consisted of variations on the subject of pumpking as given in the encyclopaedia; we expatiated on how pumkins flourish best in plenty of dung and on the disagreeable nature of their blossom's scwent. Thenceforth the paper resumed its original name of Das Landvolk and that was that.

My father's generation grew up with certain beliefs. One of those beliefs is that the amount of money one earns is a rough guide to one's contribution to the welfare and prosperity of our society. I grew up unusually close to my father. Each evening I would plop into a chair near him, sweaty from a game of baseball in the front yard, and listen to him explain why such and such was true and such and such was not. One thing that was almost always true was that people who made a lot of money were neat. Horatio Alger and all that. It took watching his son being paid 225 grand at the age of twenty-seven, after two years on the job, to shake his faith in money. He has only recently recovered from the shock. I haven't. When you sit, as I did, at the center of what has been possibly the most absurd money game ever and benefit out of all proportion to your value to society (as much as I'd like to think I got only what I deserved, I don't), when hundreds of equally undeserving people around you are all raking it in faster than they can count it, what happens to the money belief? Well, that depends. For some, good fortune simply reinforces the belief. They take the funny money seriously, as evidence that they are worthy citizens of the Republic. It becomes their guiding assumption-for it couldn't possibly be clearly thought out-that a talent for making money come out of a telephone is a reflection of merit on a grander scale. It is tempting to believe that people who think this way eventually suffer their comeuppance. They don't. They just get richer. I'm sure most of them die fat and happy. For me, however, the belief in the meaning of making dollars crumbled; the proposition that the more money you earn, the better the life you are leading was refuted by too much hard evidence to the contrary. And without that belief, I lost the need to make huge sums of money. The funny thing is that I was largely unaware how heavily influenced I was by the money belief until it had vanished. It is a small piece of education, but still the most useful thing I picked up at Salomon Brothers. Almost everything else I learned I left behind. I became fairly handy with a few hundred million dollars, but I'm still lost when I have to decide what to do with a few thousand. I learned humility briefly in the training program but forgot it as soon as I was given a chance. And I learned that people can be corrupted by organizations, but since I remain willing to join organizations and even to be corrupted by them (mildly, please), I'm not sure what practical benefit will come from this lesson.

SEITSEMÄN MIEHEN VOIMA Kiljukoon nyt kaikkein kaula, koska mielin virren laulaa voimasta seitsemän miehen. Tähtiä kuin otavassa, poikia on Jukolassa, laiskanpulskeja jallii. Juho pauhaa, pirtti roikaa; hän on talon aika poika, ankara "Poika-Jussi". Tuomas seisoo niinkuin tammi, koska saarnaa Aaprahammi, Jukolan Salomon suuri. Simeoni, liuhuparta, valittaa se "ihmisparka, syntinen, saatana, kurja". Simeoni herneet keittää, Timo sekaan rasvat heittää, patahan kuohuvaan sylkee. Lauri-poika metsäs häärii, katselevi puita väärii, mäyränä nummia tonkii. Viimein tulee hännän huippu, Pikku-Eero, liukas luikku, Jukolan tiuskea rakki. Siinä onpi velisarja, jalo niinkuin sonnikarja, voimalla seitsemän miehen.

It's hard to know exactly how many empty houses there are...the census placed the figure, in the United States, in 2000, at about 10.5 million housing units (including apartments, counting duplexes as two, and so forth). For comparison: less than a quarter million people lived in homeless shelters in 2000.

De modo que una persona verdaderamente entera tiene que tener una buena orientación y también habilidad para actuar.

La enfermedad, el fingir estar enfermo, que constituye gran parte de este volverse loco, no es más que una búsqueda de apoyo ambiental. Estamos enfermos en cama: alguien nos cuida, nos alimenta, nos da abri-go, no hay que salir a ganarse la vida, es la regresión total. Pero la regresión no es, como pensaba Freud, un fenómeno puramente patológico. La regresión significa retraerse a una posición donde uno puede proveerse su propio apoyo, donde nos sentimos seguros.

el camino al infierno está pavimentado con buenas intenciones

14-nada tiene significado sin su contexto. El significado no existe.

Nancy Peretsman of Allen & Co., a top Wall Street banker and a specialist in internet and media deals. Buffett was high on Peretsman, who had been a budding star at Salomon Brothers, the investment bank in which he was a large investor, before she joined forces with Herbert Allen. It was Peretsman who placed the first call to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, a casual friend of Graham’s for 15 years, to tell him the Post was for sale.

Immanuel Kant was convinced that the generations following him would live in either an “enlightened age” or, at least, an “age of enlightening”134; he would never have dreamt that, 200 years after his death, humanity might be steering towards an “age of religious anti-enlightenment”, in which holy warriors of different persuasions would be calling the tune to which society at large has to dance. But today we are confronted with exactly this danger.

Parfois, la force dont nous venons de parler, ou plus exactement la synthèse de l’influence spirituelle avec cette force collective à laquelle elle s’« incorpore » pour ainsi dire, peut se concentrer sur un « support » d’ordre corporel, tel qu’un lieu ou un objet déterminé, qui joue le rôle d’un véritable « condensateur »2, et y produire des manifestations sensibles, comme celles que rapporte la Bible hébraïque au sujet de l’Arche d’Alliance et du Temple de Salomon ; on pourrait aussi citer ici comme exemples, à un degré ou à un autre, les lieux de pèlerinage, les tombeaux et les reliques des saints ou d’autres personnages vénérés par les adhérents de telle ou telle forme traditionnelle.

I had dropped off a passenger at Penn Station on a Sunday morning in June, 1983 and, finding no one there looking for my services, I decided to cruise down 7th Avenue to search for my next customer. I went only a couple of blocks before I was startled by a scary, shrill sound coming from my left. Scanning the area for its source, I saw that it was coming from a woman who was standing on the sidewalk screaming. Looking around for

I'm just a Boche," I thought to myself; "I'm a Boche and I always have been." At that time in France, I did everything that a Boche does, both those actions he performs deliberately, conscious and proud of his Bocheness, and those that he does when he is well-nigh falling over backward in his attempts not to be taken for what he is. When I returned home I wished to write a little book for Rohwohlt entitled: The Adventures of a Little Boche in France It never came to anything because quite quietly the little Boches had turned into big Boches, and from then on it was difficult for the little ones to prove that they weren't the big ones.

Buffett also reaffirmed that they like John Gutfreund, Chairman of Salomon Brothers, very much. Munger (whose favorite expression seemed to be, “It’s one tough business.”) made one of his only enthusiastic comments of the day: “Salomon is deep in talent—the ultimate meritocracy—and with that talent may do very well over time.” It appears to me that Salomon Brothers, which is selling below book value, may be an excellent long-term core holding. On

In February, 1943, eight months before she was murdered in Auschwitz, the German painter Charlotte Salomon killed her grandfather. Salomon’s grandparents, like many Jews, had fled Germany in the mid-nineteen-thirties, with a stash of “morphine, opium, and Veronal” to use “when their money ran out.” But Salomon’s crime that morning was not a mercy killing to save the old man from the Nazis; this was entirely personal. It was Herr Doktor Lüdwig Grünwald, not “Herr Hitler,” who, Salomon wrote, “symbolized for me the people I had to resist.

The biggest current threat to Homo sapiens is not earthquakes and tsunamis, nor volcanic eruptions or meteorite impacts, nor indeed corrupt governments and economic recessions; rather, it is a structurally caused stupidity.

Elle lui répondit: Mon seigneur, tu as juré à ta servante par l'Eternel, ton Dieu, en disant: Salomon, ton fils, régnera après moi, et il s'assiéra sur mon trône.

Sometimes it pays to stay in bed on Monday, rather than spending the rest of the week debugging Monday's code

In the ensuing anarchy the bad drove out the good, the big drove out the small, and the brawn drove out the brains. There was a single trait common to denizens of the back row, though I doubt it ever occurred to anyone: They sensed that they needed to shed whatever refinements of personality and intellect they had brought with them to Salomon Brothers. This wasn’t a conscious act, more a reflex. They were the victims of the myth, especially popular at Salomon Brothers, that a trader is a savage, and a great trader a great savage. This wasn’t exactly correct. The trading floor held evidence to that effect. But it also held evidence to the contrary. People believed whatever they wanted to.

Outro dia li uma breve biografia que resumia o tempo de vida de milhares de pessoas que preferiram trilhar o caminho da banalidade, sem nunca aceitar o desafio de deixar o lugar comum, a roda da infelicidade, a mediocridade, e ascender à dimensão mais alta do seu próprio potencial. Talvez, você já tenha lido: “Salomon Grunday... Nasceu numa segunda-feira... Batizado numa terça... Casado na quarta... Adoeceu na quinta... Piorou na sexta... Morreu no sábado... Foi enterrado no domingo... e este foi o fim de Salomon Grunday.” Certamente, a história de uma vida irônica como essa é estimulada por uma sociedade apática que prefere o atalho fácil ao caminho produtivo; exalta a displiscência, ao invés da diligência, promove uma ética de trabalho que se concentra mais nos direitos do que nas responsabilidades, balança os ombros em vez de estender a mão de ajuda, responde ao chamado para agir com a pergunta: “Qual é o meu papel nisso?” E prefere continuar girando na roda que leva a lugar nenhum. Fuja da roda e... sucesso!

The New York Times, in other words, affected policy at Salomon Brothers.

Mike Bloomberg once said, “I have always had a policy: If it’s a friend and they get a promotion, I don’t bother to call them; I’ll see them sometime and make a joke about it. If they get fired, I want to go out to dinner with them that night. And I want to do it in a public place where everybody can see me. Because I remember when I got fired from Salomon Brothers—I can tell you every single person that called me. That meant something. When I was made a partner? I have no recollection of that whatsoever.” My friend Todd Benson puts it this way: “Show up when it matters, when it means something. Never miss a funeral. Attend every wedding.

The Rothschild brothers-Nathan, James, Amschel, Carl, and Salomon-comprised the world's largest private bank.

the most important street smart in a city of strangers is simply good manners.

But Bloomberg still talks about it as the lucky break of his career. “After all, losing a job can be a golden opportunity to start your own business. (Thank you very much, Salomon Brothers),” said the Mayor in his speech to the Economic Club of New York on March 23, 2009, at the height of the great recession (lasting from December 2007 to June 2009, according to official statistics of the National Bureau of Economic Research). He explained how his administration intended to overcome the crisis by encouraging the entrepreneurial spirit of the City, with many new initiatives to attract “the best and brightest” brains and help them build their startups.[13]

Operating from his house, Mayer and sons Amschel, Salomon, Nathan, Carl, and James built the business into a strong importing house.