Louis XIV famously said, "L'etat, c'est moi," letting everyone know his centrality in France. Bruce Wasserstein needs no such pithy quotes to broadcast his dominance over Lazard: just look at his compensation-which, at $41 million, is more than one-quarter of the advisory firm's full-year 2007 profit of $155 million.
Is anyone else on Wall Street worth that much? Deal Journal took a look at how much Wall Street CEOs took in last year, expressed as a percentage of net income their...
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