“This sounds so bleak when I say it, but we need some delusions to keep us going.”
Woody Allen in the New York Times
“The former chairman of Lazard in London who is now chairman of Barclays, once said that the only two things that would survive a nuclear war were cockroaches and Lazard. On the evidence of the past few years, he underestimated the tenacity of the rest of the investment banking industry”
William Wright
Editor, Financial News, London