Их нравы (немного архаики).

Джордж Сорос про собеседование в Lazard Freres (это где-то начало 1960-х):

"(It) was very enlightening, because the managing director told me, that I was barking the wrong tree wanting to go into the City: "Here in the City we practice what we call intelligent nepotism. That means that every managing director has a number of nephews, one of whom is intelligent. And he is going to be the next managing director".