The game has some of the feel of trading, just as jousting has some of the feel of war.
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...
Amos was not merely an optimist. He himself to be an optimist because he had decided pessimism was stupid. When you are a pessimist and the bad thing happens, you live it twice, Amos liked to say. On...
He was the person for whom the clock was always running out, the game was always tied, and the ball was always in his hands.
Leverage buys you a glimpse of a prosperity you haven’t really earned.
My biggest concern is the misuse of science to support policies.
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...
Success was his chosen form of revenge.
TWO THINGS STRIKE every Irish person when he comes to America, Irish friends tell me: the vastness of the country, and the seemingly endless desire of its people to talk about their personal problems....
Take whatever is thrown at you and build upon it. Yes . . . and rather than No . . . but. The idiot is bound by his pride, he says. It always has to be his way. This is also true of the person who is...
The U.S. stock market now trades inside black boxes, in heavily guarded buildings in New Jersey and Chicago.
The best way to manage people, he thought, was to convince them that you were good for their careers. He further believed that the only way to get people to believe that you were good for their career...
The entire health industry lies about what things cost to make, she said. I know what things cost because I made them.
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 great thing about baseball players, from the point of view of personal hygiene, is how seldom they break a sweat.
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 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 markets were now run by technology, but the technologists were still treated like tools. Nobody bothered to explain the business to them, but they were forced to adapt to its demands and exposed t...
The only thing any of us can do completely on our own is to have the start of a good idea.
The pleasure of rooting for Goliath is that you can expect to win. The pleasure of rooting for David is that, while you don’t know what to expect, you stand at least a chance of being inspired.
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