"Generally speaking, they have as many stars as other firms, but they are low-key about it, because that's not the Goldman way, but their bench is a lot deeper. I think Goldman has as many A players, but more importantly they have fewer C players. And no firm, I have noticed, has the depth anywhere like that."

-- William D. Cohan

#Stars Quotes #Player Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Abandon all hope, ye who enter here”
“For God took a handful of blizzard snow, blew on it and created the horse.”
“You name it and I've done it. I'd like to say I did it my way. But that line, I'm afraid, belongs to someone else.”
“... life is a solitude ...”
“Throughout my professional life, I have looked upon the Corps as a most valuable part of our naval organization, and this opinion has only been the more confirmed by every year's additional experience in active service.”
“Nothing you do for children is ever wasted.”
“You don't have to be peculiar to find God,”
“Even if you were green and had a beard and a male appendage between your legs. Even if your eyebrows were orange and you had a mole covering your entire cheek and a nose that poked me in the eye every time I kissed you. Even if you weighed seven hundred pounds and had hair the size of a Doberman under your arms. Even then, I would love you.”

Source : David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.181, Egmont UK

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