Monkey Business

得承认我从来不喜欢念书。尤其是抱着一本只有白纸黑字的书从头念到尾。能想得起来的念完全的最多的书就是制作网页的书：怎么用DW，怎么用FLASH，怎么用PS，怎么用ACTION SCRIPT。其次是杂志，时尚杂志居多。再次所有的书几乎念一半就放下了。很多人买书只是为了拥有它们。我也是。

我明白书非借不读也的道理。于是去借了一本MONKEY BUSINESS。作为入门书看看。还挺有意思的。有写实。贴些章段以纪念好歹我念过这本书。

"It took our mothers six months to realize that we weren't stockbrokers, working the phones to sell crappy public offerings to unsuspecting investors. It took us another six months after that to realize that we were, in fact, selling crappy public offerings to investors."

"Consulting? Making all those two-by-two charts and matrices and being shipped to some buttfuck place like Biloxi, Mississippi, to help consult some manufacturing company for two months? No thanks."

"There was a widely held misconception among the student body that going to the receptions and meeting the recruiters actually increased one's chances of later being granted an interview. However, what really mattered was experience. And so it was that something of a chicken-and-egg situation existed for those people who didn't have any relevant banking experience but who wanted to try to make the transition to becoming career bankers. Without experience, you couldn't get experience."

"The Links Club was an all-male institution whose membership roster was among the most exclusive in New York City. Special permission had been sought, and granted, to allow for the presence of our one female summer associate classmate, Diane. Even then, Diane's permission slip only gave her access to a limited number of the Links Club's rooms."

"His temper was legendary... as Stevens had a habit of regularly smashing his handset to pieces against his desktop after receiving phone calls from DLJ managing directors whose requests he didn't appreciate."

"Finally, there was nothing left that Stevens could do. His head fell backward, his mouth fell wide open, and there he lay in deep slumber while the chairman of the board answered the question Stevens had asked just moments before."