Sunday, July 12, 2015

In a similar vein . . .

In a similar vein, the wife of one of America's most successful fund managers offered me the small but telling anecdote that her husband is better able to navigate the streets of Davos than those of his native Manhattan. When he's home, she explained, he is ferried around by a car and driver; the snow Swiss hamlet, which is too small and awkward for limos, is the only place where he actually walks.

Chrystia FreelandPlutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else. (New York: Penguin Books, 2012), 61.

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