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Dartmouth represented a great opportunity. I wanted to go to the best possible school I could go to.

I had an excellent Ivy League education, and it gave me a long view of things.

I was going to get a degree in economics and be a teacher. But I couldn't afford to pay for the education. So I just got the MBA and not the doctorate. I loved it at Bain, and I've been there ever since.

I went to Dartmouth College, graduated, and had the opportunity to play two professional sports - I played for the New England Patriots in the NFL and professional lacrosse for the Boston Blazers. I had an injury, so I had to stop so I could heal. But when I was playing football, I wasn't making a lot of money; I wasn't a superstar.

I was a great student at a great school, Wharton School of Finance.

I applied to only one college - the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania - and was fortunate to be accepted. After graduation, I headed to Wall Street and worked as I had dreamed.

In Britain, the idea one could go from blue-collar beginnings to the university was so far out, it was quite unthinkable. I took a variety of jobs to pay for tuition - from ice-cream salesman to night-club bouncer. Whatever earned the most money in the least time.

I really enjoyed Princeton as a graduate student.

I was an economics major, which I enjoyed because I had a good business sense.

I went to the Wharton School of Finance, the toughest place to get into. I was a great student.