I've never categorically been a banker. I had two internships while I was at university. The decision was more banking, or magic, and I went with the latter.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
If you are afraid to fail, then you should go and become a banker.
I am not embarrassed to be a banker. I am not embarrassed to be in business.
I happen to know a bit about banking.
People with banking experience haven't all flocked to the biggest banks; community banks and regional banks, along with smaller trading houses and credit unions, have some very talented people.
I didn't want to be an accountant; I found myself being a banker, which was a bit different. I went to university, and I was going to do a Ph.D. in the States, but I didn't get the funding for it, so I had two years where I had a bit of a wobble and didn't really know what I wanted to do, and I ended up working as a banker.
Rather than going through a commercial banking training program, at the first bank I ever worked in, I was the chairman. And it was my own money, so we loaned it out like it was my own money.
I've never particularly liked bankers.
Early in my investment-banking career, I realized I was on a path that others had set out for me.
Banking's a sexy industry! Creative - it's dynamic, it's global, it's fast-moving, you bring a lot of talented people together!
Is there anyone I wouldn't take as a client? Well, I'd never represent a banker.