I've always wanted to invest. That's why I started working on Wall Street in the first place, back in 1986 when I went through the Salomon Brothers training program.
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When I was very young, maybe 12 years, I began to make investments.
I'm always investing. I'm constantly in talks with someone about some opportunity.
I have invested in the stock market since I was very young.
Well, when I was very young, maybe 12 years, I began to make investments.
I've made money in real estate, hotel, and restaurant investments.
And at a relatively early age, ten or so, I invested my first share of stock. And I used to follow, look at companies and so forth. But throughout the whole period, and indeed right through my college years, while I was involved in the stock market, always interested in finance, I never thought of it as a full-time job.
I invested. I wanted to cushion the future. I'm a financial success!
It's no secret that big institutional investors have a lot of advantages on Wall Street. They get the first chance to buy hot initial public offerings. They get to meet in person with companies' managements.
I loved working on Wall Street. I loved the meritocracy of it and the camaraderie of the trading floor.
I really did believe that the most successful investments were the ones that you could own for the long run.
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