Managing Director

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An INVESTMENT BANKER goes into a pet shop to buy a parrot. The shop owner shows him three nearly identical parrots on a perch and says, "The parrot on the right costs $500."

"Why does that parrot cost so much?" asks the INVESTMENT BANKER.

"Well," replies the owner, "it knows how to do pitchbooks."

"How much does the middle parrot cost?" asks the INVESTMENT BANKER again.

"That one costs $1,000 because it can do everything the first one can do plus it knows how to do complex valuation problems".

The startled INVESTMENT BANKER asks about the third parrot, to be told it costs $4,000. Needless to say, this begs the question, "What can it do?"

To which the owner replies "To be honest, I've never seen him do a darn thing, but the other two call him MD."

Always Count Your Fingers

A financier had a wide reputation as a man difficult to separate from his money. A couple of promoters approached him one day and tried to sell him on a scheme they had.

The financier talked with them  for a while but said he could give them no definite answer as yet. Telling them that he would communicate with them in a few days, he showed them out of the office.

One of the promoters seemed quite optimistic and voiced the opinion to his partner that he thought the financier was pretty well sold on their proposition.

"I don't know," replied the other skeptically. "He seemed too suspicious to me. Didn't you notice that, after shaking hands with me, he started to count his fingers?"

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