Bogle explained that what I was seeing in my Wall Street job was standard for the industry.
Facebook notified you that it was my birthday and you took the time to write two words on my wall.
Last year, I tried to turn my Wall Street Journal into my costume, but it kept ripping and my Halloween cohorts thought it was lame.
"For hours, days, I fixated on the patch of sunlight cast against my wall through those barred and grated windows, " Bauer wrote of his time in Iran.
Looking back on my Wall Street career, I realize that what I liked most was winning new business for the firm, which of course requires a knack for selling.
When I touched my hand against the Western Wall and placed my prayer between its ancient stones, I thought of all the centuries that the children of Israel had longed to return to their ancient homeland.
And so I completed my poster, and I hung it on the wall of my home office just above my desk, so I could see it whenever I sat at my computer.
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Everything from a failure to acknowledge a birthday to my own barren wall is there in the open for all to see.
Last night ( New York time), my latest Chinese Wall Street Journal article was published about the most recent Muddy Waters report targeting Focus Media.
Because of my experience on Wall Street and China, and the team of experienced Chinese professionals that we have assembled, we act as a lightning rod for Western and Chinese companies alike.
The blue notebooks that neatly lined the south wall of my room were reserved for "Maps of People Doing Things, " as opposed to the green notebooks on the east wall, which contained zoological, geological, and topographical maps, or the red notebooks on the west wall, which was where I mapped out insect anatomy in case my mother, Dr. Clair Linneaker Spivet, ever called upon my services.
My brief tenure on Wall Street, two summers, was probably the result of the paternalism.
On my last day, I revisit my favourite sections of wall, using the bus to hopscotch between them.
"I have three homes and a summer rental, and some of my money is in Wall Street, " he explained.
All of my close friends on Wall Street were safe, thankfully, but several friends of friends were not.
"This was about as difficult a quarter as I've seen in my 30 years on Wall Street, " Chief Executive JohnThainJohn Thain told analysts during a conference call.
"This was about as difficult a quarter as I've seen in my 30 years on Wall Street, " Chief Executive John Thain told analysts during a conference call.
My gut tells me Wall Street's residual bullishness is misplaced.
If there is one thing that I have learned for sure in my 45 years on Wall Street it is this: When the crowd agrees, it is always wrong.
So that very first DNA fingerprint, which I can see in front of me right now on the wall of my office--I still have the original--a very murky, grubby bit of X-ray film.
The next day we were sitting on the deck and I was trying to get him to tell me stories or talk to me about ingredients, and it was like banging my head against a wall all day long, in the hot sun, with a hangover.
From the day we met, he was Mr. Sets My Brain on Fire, then he evolved for a long, lovely spell into Mr. Makes Me Sing REO Speedwagon in the Shower, but there was always an undercurrent of Mr. You Are Seriously Pushing Your Luck Here, and I eventually found myself doing the ol' step-ball-change with Mr. Why Am I Banging My Head Against This Wall?
"My gym has as many, maybe more, wall-mounted hand sanitizers than my medical office, " he says.
The iPad has 1 million more pixels than my HDTV, but am I going to mount it to the wall and sit around it with my friends?
As I walked away, he got up and followed me into my apartment building at 63 Wall Street.
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However, I hit the wall in both my last two races, and I'm terrified it will happen again this Sunday.
"I feel like hitting my head against a brick wall, " he says.
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