Whether you are a woman on a tea plantation in Kenya, or a stockbroker on Wall Street, or a Hollywood actress, no one is being paid equally.
Should you trust a stockbroker who's married to a travel agent?
Bluntly put, there's no chance that your doctor, dentist, or attorney is a high-school dropout. Your stockbroker, however, just might be.
At nineteen I was pretty sure I was going to be a professional soccer player. At that time I played for one of the Norwegian premier leagues. But I tore ligaments in both knees, so I started studying business administration and economics and became a financial analyst, and I worked at a brokerage firm as a stockbroker.
I didn't know what a stockbroker was when I was eight, but I would just tell everybody that's what I was going to be.
A stockbroker is someone who invests other people's money until it is all gone.
Is it not odd that the only generous person I ever knew, who had money to be generous with, should be a stockbroker.
Both my nine- and seven-year-olds have a stockbroker already.
A public school-educated stockbroker, who wants to shrink the state and let the markets rip, who reinvented himself as a man of the people and convinced millions of disillusioned working-class voters he was on a mission to smash the rich elite he belonged to.
My stockbroker asked me something important today: paper or plastic?
