“I’m Huge!”

Michael Lewis deconstructs Todd Thomson:

The obvious question — “What was the man thinking?” — Thomson hasn’t addressed, at least not publicly. But that shouldn’t stop the rest of us from guessing, and my guess is that the soundtrack in the back of Todd Thomson’s mind played the golden oldie from the glory days of the Wall Street alpha male:
“Look at me: I’m huge! Because I’m huge I have special needs. Because I make this place hundreds of millions a year, I can do whatever the hell I want. Technically, Prince may be my boss but I don’t really have a boss, because without me he’s not just short and tubby but toast. I make the money. The petty rules are for the people who don’t make the money.”

Posted by Eddy Elfenbein on February 13th, 2007 at 10:16 am

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