The only thing any of us can do completely on our own is to have the start of a good idea.
The old Soviet culture also left its former citizens oddly prepared for Wall Street in the early twenty-first century. The Soviet-controlled economy was horrible and complicated but riddled with looph...
The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is...
The human mind was just bad at seeing things it did not expect to see, and a bit too eager to see what it expected to see.
The guy walks around with a banana in his ear. And people are like, ‘Why do you have a banana in your ear?’ He says, ‘To keep the alligators away! There are no alligators! See?
The game has some of the feel of trading, just as jousting has some of the feel of war.
The first thing Gutenberg sought to publish, after the Bible, was a laxative timetable he called a Purgation-Calendar. Then there is the astonishing number of anal German folk sayings. As the fish liv...
The best decisions he has made in his life, he said, were completely unexpected, the ones that cut against convention. Then he went even further. He said that every decision he has forced himself to m...
The American Home of the Future, it went without saying, would be controlled and monitored by a computer. The computer would permit the owner to enter into a new, fantastic relationship with his dwell...
Success was his chosen form of revenge.
Shining a light creates shadows,
People no longer are responsible for what happens in the market, because computers make all the decisions.
No matter how successful you are, change is always good. There can never be a status quo. When you have no money you can’t afford long-term solutions, only short-term ones. You have to always be upgra...
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It was as if this baseball coach had reached inside me, found a rusty switch marked: 'turn on before attempting use' - and flipped it.
It is the nature of being the general manager of a baseball team that you have to remain on familiar terms with people you are continually trying to screw.
If it doesn’t happen, it never was going to happen. If you never did it, it wasn’t there to begin with.
His life was dedicated to the fine art of tearing down and building anew.
He walked around the Las Vegas casino incredulous at the spectacle before him: seven thousand people, all of whom seemed delighted with the world as they found it. A society with deep, troubling econo...
Clark liked to say that human beings, when they took risks, fell into one of two types, pigs or chickens. The difference between these two kinds of people, he’d say, is the difference between the pig...