Documentary Description
Like many in the 1980’s, Nick Leeson wanted to be
rich and successful, but Nick Leeson was also a very strange man, he
had an extraordinary ability to manipulate and deceive those around
him. This is his story. It is also a story about those he deceived.
They willingly entered into a dream he wove, lured by the prospect of
vast sums of money and together they lost 830 million pounds.
“It’s very easy for me to get along with people, but
I don’t necessarily have to like you or any of the people that I work
with to get along with them. So I come in and do my job, do it to the
best of my ability, and then at the end of the day if you’re going to
ask me out for a drink, I’m not going to go out for a drink with you
because I don’t like you, but I’m not going to tell you that, there’s
no reason for there to be any animosity during the day. I just didn’t
like the people that I worked with and so I would go and do the work,
be very very friendly, everybody would probably say that they thought
they were my best friend and if they have the knowledge, then I will
attempt to get the knowledge through whichever way is best, and if a
friendship is that method, then friendship is the method that I would
use.” –Nick Leeson
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