Soooooo. Here’s what Jimmy Cayne had to say about about a bunch of some notable CEOs, as noted by noted by Charlie Gasparino’s new book, When Mooks Fail:
Cayne usually had nothing but disdain for most of his fellow CEOs on Wall Street. He had once referred to former NYSE chairman Dick Grasso as a “pig” for his attept to cash out his $140 million retirement package even after Cayne, then a NYSE board member, approved the move. Morgan Stanley CEO John Mack was a “bullshit artist”‘ Hank Paulson, when he was the CEO of Goldman, was simply a “snake.” Cayne had even less tolerance for Sandy Weill, and even as he considered selling Bear to JPMorgan Chase chief Jamie Dimon, he told friends that he wasn’t crazy about Dimon because he was a “screamer.”
So Jamie Dimon is a “screamer.” Okay. Here’s what JC had to say about Stan O’Neal, the greatest CEO on Wall Street, present company not included, of course.
“He’s the real thing,” Jimmy Cayne said when asked why on earth he was having lunch with Stan O’Neal…O’Neal was a “solid citizen” and a “real player,” even though he had virtually stolen the CEO job from Dave Komansky, whom Cayne still considered a friend. For the next two years [after O'Neal became CEO of Merrill] the meetings would continue with some degree of regularity. It was an odd relationship on the surface because the two men couldn’t have been more different: the foulmouthed, cigar-chomping Cayne and O’Neal, who almost never cursed and smoked.
But dig deeper, and O’Neal and Cayne had much in common. Both were CEO’s. Both loved to play golf when they should have been working [Ed. Note: Burn Chaz, BURN.]. And both ran firms increasingly addicted to leverage and risk without the slightest idea what was in store for them.
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Littering and, littering and….
smokin the reefer.
really? when mooks fail? bess is a racist piece of trailer trash, a carpet muncher too
@2 you’re a tool, and your posts wherein you try and self-deprecate about the fact that you’re a racist homophobe are lame.
JD a screamer huh? Sounds like fun.
Jimmy cayne: one of the greats.
-JC
@3 Humor, try it.
- Not 2
@2 a “mook” is a knucklehead. you remain an idiot.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=mook%20%28n.%29
@7
a mook is what i feel to be, and a mookie wilson is a sheriff
@6 SBII is a massive, racist, douchebag tool. nothing he says is humorous.
speaking of a “screamer”…I hear Bess Levin is one.
According to your quote, DIMON is the screamer – not Jimmy Cayne.
@10
http://www.instantrimshot.com/
@11 that was an accident. I had a too many drinks at lunch.
there are those that would have you believe i am not funny
now, i want to be clear here, there is no way my posts will ever lead to you’re losing your sense of humor
if you have humor, and want to keep it, then that’s ok
- HNIC
@ Bess I was thinking so earlier. A “hottest babes” post at 11:00 am will always buy enough time for three martinis.
@15 or five gimlets?
You’ve never heard screaming.
-cellmate de Sir Allen
@15 I don’t drink martinis.
@16 3 & one in a to-go cup (from the best waiter ever).
Bess, you’ve outphotoshopped yourself. Killing me!
@18 for fuck sake can we hear more about BL being shitfaced?
HA that picture of Chaz on Pineapple express was on Fast Money!
@21 saw that too. Bess Levin ftw.
Isn’t a gimlet also a tool used to start a screw?
~B. Vila
Serious Construction, NJ
@23 it’s something that’ll get bess wasted.
-bess’s boss
Gimlets: noted. 3 martinis: figure of speech.
basically it makes sense: he doesn’t like dishonest people
better to be an honest loser than a cheating winner.
of course most people on the sell side are psychopaths so this makes no sense to them
so it seems that he really likes dimon but is jealous
@26 are you nuts? you think stan was honest?
Jimmy Cayne is a shitheel.
SBII -
I’m going to give you humor points for the HNIC signoff.
- Humor Point Awarder Guy
@29/HPAC, Your good intentions are laudable, but PLEASE DO NOT FEED THE DOUCHE.
Thank you.
In the eyes of GOD you are all shitheels. Remember that in your moments of smugness.
the photo-shopped images, plugging someone’s face onto another’s body, are getting very old.
@32 congrats, no one cares. (who seriously gets worked up over that? tool.)
@ 29 – concur, I thought my father was the only one who used that term