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Ray Dalio • Principles: Life and Work
Also, don’t be afraid to contact the firms. Many people believe there’s a very rigid recruiting process and they can’t call recruiters and can’t talk to analysts, but just by reaching out you’ll see that people are so generous with their time when it comes to talking with others who show an interest in the industry.
Bradley Miles • #BreakIntoVC: How to Break Into Venture Capital And Think Like an Investor Whether You're a Student, Entrepreneur or Working Professional (Venture Capital Guidebook Book 1)
Elite students climb confidently until they reach a level of competition sufficiently intense to beat their dreams out of them. Higher education is the place where people who had big plans in high school get stuck in fierce rivalries with equally smart peers over conventional careers like management consulting and investment banking.
Peter Thiel, Blake Masters • Zero to One
Avoid businesses in which your work would be so irreplaceable that the company would be worth nothing when you decide to leave.
Royce Yudkoff • HBR Guide to Buying a Small Business
Now think about how the math continues to cascade through the network. Princeton hopes that I continue to be an active recruiting node on the network, providing the students with great employment options. But my cost/reward math doesn’t work. The denominator is zero. So Princeton lost a recruiter node in their network for now. Further, now those st... See more
nfx.com • Your Life Is Driven by Network Effects
For new graduates, working at a consulting firm creates optionality because of the broad exposures (to industries and companies) and skills these firms purportedly develop. Going to graduate school creates optionality by enabling more opportunities than a narrow professional trajectory can provide. Working at prestigious firms and developing social... See more