When I left my job at Lehman Brothers to start a company, my best friend's mother said, 'How could you leave a sure thing like Lehman to do a silly carpool startup?' That was three months before Lehman went bankrupt.
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"When I left my job at Lehman Brothers to start a company, my best friend's mother said, 'How could you leave a sure thing like Lehman to do a silly carpool startup?' That was three months before Lehman went bankrupt." — John Zimmer #workcareer
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When I left my job at Lehman Brothers to start a company, my best friend's mother said, 'How could you leave a sure thing like Lehman to do a silly carpool startup?' That was three months before Lehman went bankrupt. — John Zimmer
About John Zimmer
John Zimmer was a Businessman from Luxembourg (1942–2021).
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Who said "When I left my job at Lehman Brothers to start a company, my best friend's moth…"?
This quote is attributed to John Zimmer, a Businessman from Luxembourg.
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John Zimmer lived from 1942 – 2021.
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