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Private sector (big research laboratories, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, etc.), academia (top schools in the world, like Princeton, Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Oxford, etc), and government (NASA, NSA, etc). You’re insane if you think the top “business majors” come up to even the nutsacks of the guys...

Alright dude. You’re so smart your smarter than Einstein!

Yes, the next generation of Einsteins are smarter than the kids doing “complex” financial models. GPAs aren’t everything. I know plenty of 4.0 morons.

Dude, I am one of the guys you’re talking about, and many of my friends from college went into banking. I don’t care what transcripts you’ve seen. I went to school with these people. The top minds mostly didn’t go to Wall Street. These are the people that will one day compete for a Nobel...

To make a lot of money you need to know how to sell. That might not be your primary line of work, but we are all salesmen, no matter what we do. Just one quick thing. I graduated from HYP. I can tell you that the most brilliant minds did not go to Wall Street. The most brilliant minds are...

You're always selling. You're selling the seller to sell you the company at a lower price. You're selling the buyer to buy the company at a higher price. You also sell your LPs to invest in your fund and let you manage their money. You also sell them on the 2 / 20 structure so that you can...

You must think other people are stupid. I did front-office IB at a premiere bulge bracket ($35+ billion in deals), PE at a top shop (several billion), went to HYP undergrad, and top 3 business school / law school. I know a little something about this. The guys you're referring to are the...

I worked on Wall Street. I now have my own company. The Wall Street guys aren’t as smart as you think. They have capital and they fill a demand / need in the market, so some of them make a lot of money. Most of them don’t. They certainly think they’re the smartest guys in the room, though.