In the 1980s, the financial world was rewarding brains and brass balls as never before. Knowing how to fix a car was a skill, persuading someone you had a skill was a talent, and convincing someone with a talent that you could teach him how to do it even better and at scale was called management consulting.

Jonathan Rosen, The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions (2023)