Matt Levine wrote this sentence but it rhymes heavily with a very pg thought:
> The basic reason to work in finance is that, traditionally, it was the industry where you could get the most leverage on being smart.
bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
> The basic reason to work in finance is that, traditionally, it was the industry where you could get the most leverage on being smart.
bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
(The classic articulation of that thought was in this essay, although I'll pg wrote / spoke / etc about it in many other places, too.
paulgraham.com/wealth.html )
paulgraham.com/wealth.html )
Incidentally, I think I read this for the first time in something like 2009, and it might have been the most important two sentences I read in my life. (You can reasonably assume my goal wasn't "getting rich" per se but it generalizes to a lot of goals.) 
That was essentially the internal design brief for my consultancy:
"In scope: anything I can licitly do which acts as a multiplier on a firm's revenue line or enterprise value. Out of scope: everything else."
(Ended up with the "For B2B SaaS companies" later.)
"In scope: anything I can licitly do which acts as a multiplier on a firm's revenue line or enterprise value. Out of scope: everything else."
(Ended up with the "For B2B SaaS companies" later.)
