Goldman Sachs 14 Principles

14 Business Principles if Goldman Sachs

1. Our clients' interests always come first. Our experience shows that if we serve our clients well, our own success will follow.

2. Our assets are our people, capital and reputation. If any of these is ever diminished, the last is the most difficult to restore. We are dedicated to complying fully with the letter and spirit of the laws, rules and ethical principles that govern us. Our continued success depends upon unswerving adherence to this standard.

3. Our goal is to provide superior returns to our shareholders. Profitability is critical to achieving superior returns, building our capital, and attracting and keeping our best people. Significant employee stock ownership aligns the interests of our employees and our shareholders.

4. We take great pride in the professional quality of our work. We have an uncompromising determination to achieve excellence in everything we undertake. Though we may be involved in a wide variety and heavy volume of activity, we would, if it came to a choice, rather be best than biggest.

5. We stress creativity and imagination in everything we do. While recognizing that the old way may still be the best way, we constantly strive to find a better solution to a client's problems. We pride ourselves on having pioneered many of the practices and techniques that have become standard in the industry.

6. We make an unusual effort to identify and recruit the very best person for every job. Although our activities are measured in billions of dollars, we select our people one by one. In a service business, we know that without the best people, we cannot be the best firm.

7. We offer our people the opportunity to move ahead more rapidly than is possible at most other places. Advancement depends on merit and we have yet to find the limits to the responsibility our best people are able to assume. For us to be successful, our men and women must reflect the diversity of the communities and cultures in which we operate. That means we must attract, retain and motivate people from many backgrounds and perspectives. Being diverse is not optional; it is what we must be.

8. We stress teamwork in everything we do. While individual creativity is always encouraged, we have found that team effort often produces the best results. We have no room for those who put their personal interests ahead of the interests of the firm and its clients.

9. The dedication of our people to the firm and the intense effort they give their jobs are greater than one finds in most other organizations. We think that this is an important part of our success.

10. We consider our size an asset that we try hard to preserve. We want to be big enough to undertake the largest project that any of our clients could contemplate, yet small enough to maintain the loyalty, the intimacy and the esprit de corps that we all treasure and that contribute greatly to our success.

11. We constantly strive to anticipate the rapidly changing needs of our clients and to develop new services to meet those needs. We know that the world of finance will not stand still and that complacency can lead to extinction.

12. We regularly receive confidential information as part of our normal client relationships. To breach a confidence or to use confidential information improperly or carelessly would be unthinkable.

13. Our business is highly competitive, and we aggressively seek to expand our client relationships. However, we must always be fair competitors and must never denigrate other firms.

14. Integrity and honesty are at the heart of our business. We expect our people to maintain high ethical standards in everything they do, both in their work for the firm and in their personal lives.

NFL Picks this week

Here are the best links we have for the NFL this week as well as the sports betting professor
These are the picks for this week: http://www.cooperspick.com/fullarticle.asp?910-Cleveland-Cavaliers-vs.-Charlotte-Bobcats
http://www.cooperspick.com/fullarticle.asp?913-Los-Angeles-Lakers-vs.-New-Orleans-Hornets
http://www.cooperspick.com/fullarticle.asp?917-Chicago-Bears-Green-Bay-Packers-Pick
http://www.cooperspick.com/fullarticle.asp?918-St-Louis-Rams-vs-Seattle-Seahawks-Pick-ATS
http://www.cooperspick.com/fullarticle.asp?919-Pick-New-Orleans-Saints-vs-Tampa-Bay-Bucs
http://www.cooperspick.com/fullarticle.asp?920-NFL-Week-17-Picks
http://www.cooperspick.com/fullarticle.asp?921-Indiana-Pacers-vs-Washington-Wizards
http://www.cooperspick.com/fullarticle.asp?922-Jacksonville-Jaguars-vs-Houston-Texans
http://www.cooperspick.com/fullarticle.asp?923-Philadelphia-76ers-vs-Los-Angeles-Lakers
http://www.cooperspick.com/fullarticle.asp?914-SBG-Global-Exclusive-Bonus-for-Iphone-and-Ipad-bettors

Hope you love all the lovely link love for the week!

Erin Burnett Drunk on egg nog Gas Mask Bra Fired

Erin Burnett Drunk on Egg Nog Gas Mask Bra Fired??




Erin Burnett is by far one of my favorite anchors on CNBC. Her and Mark Haines do a superb job in the morning and the fact that she is hot and from Maryland help her out a lot in my book. Any who after the gift exchange last Friday she received a red bra from the gift exchange and apparently drank too much egg nog as she was rather entertaining doing a joint split screen report with MSNBC with Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough.

They tried to turn the topic back into a discussion on the jobless claims number but she was too distracting. All I know if Jeff Imelt PLEASE DO NOT HARM ERIN SHE DESERVES HER JOB WE ALL MAKE MISTAKES BUT THINK ABOUT THE PRESS YOU ARE GETTING FROM THIS RATINGS MUST BE UP IN A RATHER SLOW WEEK.

Brian Roberts since you will have a lot of say in the matter please defend the beautiful young lady as ratings will plummet without her.

The video is on display below please support by clicking on my ads so I can donate the proceeds to Erin:

Things you shouldn't do on Facebook

Things you should not do on Facebook \

There are so many people who make a fool of themselves on the daily on Face book and end up landing on Lamebook.com. Here are some things that you may want to contemplate before doing next time your on the worlds favorite social network:

1) Confess your love on facebook is a recipe for disaster since the internet is permanent ink. Also if you have something to say private message it because it may not last or the girl you are breaking up with may end up pregnant with your child so beware.

2) Tell everybody of your every single move. Do not think for a second we care where exactly you are at and that your dog sneezes. WE DONT CARE.

3) Send us invites to stuff we are not even closely associated with.

4) poking us who really pokes anymore?

5) Send me the quizes on my wall. I really dont want to disable my wall but you are making it extremely tempting.

So please all of you facebookers stop!

Facebook makes dinero

Facebook is making dinero. How much moola you may ask? Well there on a Google like growth pace as they have expanded their total revenues from $800 million dollars last year in fiscal 2009 to an expected 2010 gross revenue total of $2.00 billion dollars. Of course Zuck and the gang do have tremendous overhead because when you think about it they are the new flickr which contains everybodys pictures, profile information, videos that people post and soon just about every single business will have a business page on facebook thus sucking up even more bandwidth and server space.

My favorite part about this is that Marc doesn't even care it's not about money those chips just help to keep track of your progress. It's about doing something you enjoy and love and if anybody reading this has ever had the pleasure of starting and creating a business than you would agree that there is nothing like the joys, stresses, and excitement of starting a business. It's a learning experience like none other.

A 2009 article talked about their current server costs a year we're exceeding 100 million dollars a year and in all likeliness that cost has continued to rise. Perhaps cisco or some other tech behemoths (maybe even facebook ding ding idea) can create servers that do not bear the brunt of such an expensive cost.


Just an idea and congrats fellow mensa Marc.

Best Payday Loan Affiliate Program

Online payday loans have become as popular as Dubai and Qatar we're when we saw peak oil prices. So what I wanted to know about the shady online payday loan industry is what are the best affiliate programs to deal with as we own a payday loan website with all the proper keywords included it's something like fast cash instant online paydayloan dot com or something to that extent.

Please leave do follow comments advising how we may be able to monetize what we have here. Since the industry is so lucrative and could be monetized in such a fashion that would really benefit the masses.

Top 10 Events of the Second Half of 2010

TOP EVENTS FOR THE SECOND HALF OF 2010

In case you missed our infamous Top 10 Events of 2010 So Far than check it out but to follow it up we felt we were due to do the top ten events for the second half of 2010. If I missed anything please do let us know by leaving a do follow comment below:

10) On July 8th 2010 Lebron James signs with the Miami Heat and not the Cleveland Cavaliers nor the Chicago Bulls but rather the Miami Heat enraging millions of fans as he strives to win an NBA championship.

9) Ronni Chasen's Mysterious Murder. A true hollywood thriller of who'd done it.Chasen was shot early in the morning on November 16, 2010, at approximately 12:28 a.m. PST, in the upscale neighborhood of Beverly Hills when she was driving home from the Hollywood premiere for the new movie Burlusque. The case is still open and if you have any leads we ask that you report them immediately to theoneigot blog or the LAPD whichever one you feel more comfortable speaking with.

8) Rep. Charley Rangel misappropriating funds and being a politician. Well what was different in this than anything else all the other politicians have done? Does he avoid Censure since he served in the Korean War?

7) Julian Assange famed founder of wikileaks on 7/25/2010 leaks covert and classified material to the general public of over 90k internal reports on the war in Afghanistan and to follow things up he then threatens in Late November to release damning evidence that will bring down at least one very large bank. Now he is in hiding with death threats from Chasen's assasin and the files are being hidden in James Bonds Cave. No they really are being hidden in Bonds layer.

6) Call of Duty Black Ops is Released and within 24 hours of being released, the game sold more than 7 million copies, 5.6 million in the U.S. and 1.4 million in the U.K., breaking the record set by its predecessor Mdoern Warfare 2 and halo 3 by over 2.5 million copies thus marking the most lucrative in terms of dollar sales ever for an entertainment release.

5)Nasa released a big announcement on the discovery of new Arsenic-based life form in a lake in California which leads the way for us to find new life forms on different planets.

4) The Chilean Miner Debacle. 33 miners get trapped underground for 69 days and Oakley ends up saving them by sponsoring their sunglasses while CNN broadcasts it to the public. Noting one of the most authentic advertising campaign of 2010.

3) In Sumatra Indonesia an Earthquake and a Tsunami kills over 400 people and leave hundreds missing causes the second biggest natural disaster of 2010.

2) The top natural disaster of 2010 so far stands as the 7/29/2010 monsson causes widespread flooding greater than the one earlier this year in Tennessee in Khyber Pakhutunkha Pakistan thus killing 1,600 popel and affecting millions.

1) Google Releases instant search and than goes out and buys Groupon the leading deal of the day website.