Whatever image you may hold about investment bankers, which may have come from personally knowing one, or reading about them, or seeing personifications of this breed in movies, one thing is certain--at their core, they are plain human beings who commit as much mistakes as everybody else, so don't let them fool you if you come across some conceited rhetoric about who they are. Take this joke from Becquet.com:
AN INVESTMENT BANKER I know was sitting in the lobby of a San Francisco hotel when she saw a familiar face nearby. She was sure he was a former client or colleague, so she started walking over to him. Just then, Henry Kissinger, the former U.S. secretary of state, strode in and took the seat my friend was about to occupy. She was saved. She had planned to open the conversation with Helmut Schmidt, the former chancellor of West Germany, by asking: "Didn't we work together at Chase Manhattan Bank?"
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