It is not the material goods we want, it is the rewards. (…) The next time you see someone driving a Ferrari, don’t think this is someone who is greedy, think this is someone who is incredibly vulnerable and in need of love.
Alain de Botton on ‘success’ [A Fistful of Euros]
If Greg were a car, he’d be a Ford Aspire: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Aspire
I always thought it meant they had a small dick or were bald.
“Atticus – Atticus – Atticus — Atticus”
Joke Briefer summoned to the room please..
What is this moron on CNBC talking about? September 11th SPY options?
That’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever read…. excluding every post Greg ever wrote, of course.
The next time you see someone from France making idiotic sweeping generalizations about human nature, don’t think this is someone who has a clue, think this is someone who is an enormous carbon-based biped douchebag.
wtf is a euro.
@6
He’s british you cuntrag. But hey
Seriously, the Atticus news broke 3 hours ago and still nothing here. WTF happened to getting ahead of the news, let alone keeping up with it.
“According to figures supplied to the Observer by Nielsen, the television tracking agency, the average number of Americans watching CNBC at any point on the 24-hour clock was 188,000 last month, a drop of 11% on last year. A more detailed breakdown leaked on the internet reveals a 28% plunge in CNBC viewers during the core business day, between 5am and 7pm.”
DB – slightly underperforming its benchmark.
I got my dick here if anyone wants to suck it.
CG
@8
Distinction without a difference.
@9 I found out about it at 11:18 AM, Streetinsider.com found out at 10:51 AM, Dealbreaker found at *crickets chirp in the distance*…
@9 – apparently the situation is still fluid!
EP/GM : “Nothing to see here. Everyone go back inside – there is nothing to see here.”
What model and year Ferrari are we talkin’ about here?
’07 360 F1 Spyder: empty
’58 250: Love
@15
White Testarossa, baby!
@15 I drive a Ferrari, 355 Cabriolet, What’s up? I have a ridiculous house in the South Fork. I have every toy you could possibly imagine. And best of all kid, I am liquid.
Did anyone else see the glaring typo on Reuters regarding Atticus?
Boiler Room? Really?
@naked – south fork? did you buy jr ewing’s house? c’mon guy, either you’re in east hampton or you might as well be in quogue…
@Investor
I heard it in a movie. I live in Miami and thought I would try and sound cool to all of your New York people. EPIC FAIL on my part.
@Naked
Don’t be so hard on yourself… you were keeping the Boiler Room joke alive. You get credit for that. Lord knows this place needs some help no matter where it comes from.
I see a Ferrari and I think douchebag. The real question is domestic or imported
Still can’t believe DB, as a finance blog, made no mention of Atticus. Great job guys.
@23
domestic: Bud Light Lime with ice
imported: Heineken Light with a sugar coated rim
@19 You couldn’t close a fucking window.
@Naked – LMFAO, nice try. you know these are shark infested waters! just had to keep you honest…at least you got @tax chick to take pity. btw – sam adams, hands down.
@ Cluzo
Chimay Grand Reserve FTW
I don’t care about losing all the money. It’s losing all the stuff.
@anal – stop playing in your dad’s liquor cabinet…you need to drink beer (esp. given your proclivity to taking naps on the street). btw, have you been to $1 draft night at turtle bay? I know, it’s in dirty midtown, but it’s pure gold.
@cluzo
Quogue has the best breaks in Long Island, excluding the end of the world, Montauk
Well Gandhi was totally happy with making $0 a year, and was not economically jealous of anyone else. He saw no emotional, envious need to rail against the “greedy rich”, no, just human rights abuse.
Relative to Gandhi we all, including Mr. Botton, fall into the category of “someone who is incredibly vulnerable and in need of love”. Mr. Botton is just drawing an arbitrary line in the sand of human pursuits and saying “this is good”, “this is excessive and a sign of weakness”
If Person A wants something, he/she can go ahead and earn it. If Person B is happy without it he/she can devote his/her time and money elsewhere. They are both perfectly fine.
Really, it doesn’t mean that Person B is “wiser” than Person A or that Person A is more “successful” than Person B.
Mr. Botton proves to be just as negatively judgemental as the social judge of success that he is arguing against. Sorry if this is too existentialist for some of your tastes.
@33
Maman died today. Or yesterday maybe, I don’t know. I got a telegram from the home: “Mother deceased. Funeral tomorrow. Faithfully yours.” That doesn’t mean anything. Maybe it was yesterday.
Mr. Botton’s hair is a sign of weakness.
Get some better genes, boy.
# 10
Thanks to always wrong Cramer and other f*ckheads.
So the hotness of anchor babes are fading?
or
Americans are simply tired of watching financial news.They think the economy is recovering and nothing to worry about or, maybe,they just have too much of it.
brilliant! (including #2′s comment)
success defined by albert einstein in the form of an equation: http://www.iget2work.com
@Anal
It all makes sense now…
Bright red-amber. Medium-bodied. Mild bitterness. Perfumed, dried sweet herbal hop aromas. Full carbonated mouthfeel has toasty caramel malt flavors with prominent dried herbal hop character taking hold through the finish. Carbonation is rather high and vigorous.
Bright …. Medium-bodied. Mild bitterness. Perfumed…Full …. mouthfeel …. with prominent … character taking hold through the finish. … is rather high and vigorous.
I normally hate EP posts, but I have to admit that I really dug the video. I had every intention to shut it down one minute in but ended up watching and listening to the whole thing.
What price do we pay for careers? What epic fail do we achieve every where else in life to pay for that focus?
He actually sounds a bit like PTJ II in Trader who said he’d leave it once he’d had enough…now, what? 20+ years later, he hasn’t had enough?
What’s enough anymore? 10M? 10B?
I left it all in 2008, I don’t know if I have enough but I do for now. I have no debt, no car payments, no mortgages(paid in full), no end of the year credit card balancex due. Does that make me a loser or a winner? I still haven’t figured that out.
Now I just have to deal with taxes and inflation I hope. The majority of cash is out of the market but there’s still a small play. The rest is locked up in cash.
I still have no idea whether or not I made the right choices but I am fucking glad to be out of the rat races. Alain is right, there is no work/life balance, no matter what level you are in the food chain.
@36
I thought daytraders were the majority of the CNBC viewers. Those guys must be dropping like flies, no money left to pay for cable tv.
@6,8
Wikipedia says he’s Swiss.
Einstein had a sign in his office that read:
“There are some things that count that can’t be counted. And some things that can be counted that don’t count.”
“Actually, I am just greedy. I get all the love I need from my $1,000 a night czech friend Ivana.”
- Guy driving daddy’s red testarossa