The Last Tycoons Quotes

“In the past, when Michel had been asked about how the firm would manage without the prolific Felix, he would quote Georges Clemenceau, the French World War I leader: “The cemeteries are full of indispensable men.”
― William D. Cohan, The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Frères & Co.

“Ralph Waldo Emerson once observed that “an institution is the lengthened shadow of one man.” Emerson”
― William D. Cohan, The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Frères & Co.

“the famous remark of Hegel that ‘the owl of Minerva takes flight at dusk’”—Hegel’s view that wisdom comes only in hindsight.”
― William D. Cohan, The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Frères & Co.

“déjà vu all over again.”
― William D. Cohan, The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Frères & Co.

“He adored his girls, but he’s French, so he’s, you know, women are there to be dressed and fed and fucked.”
― William D. Cohan, The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Frères & Co.

“You know that I am a great believer that the faults of people are very often more determining than their qualities.”
― William D. Cohan, The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Frères & Co.

“Second, he is credited with almost single-handedly devising the financial rescue package that saved New York City from bankruptcy in 1975, standing tall against President Gerald Ford and his incendiary refusal to help.”
― William D. Cohan, The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Frères & Co.