When someone says something, don’t ask yourself if it is true. Ask what it might be true of.
Warren Buffett is fond of saying that any player unaware of the fool in the market probably is the fool in the market.
Trump’s budget, like the social forces behind it, is powered by a perverse desire—to remain ignorant.
This conceit went hand in glove with the investment bankers’ belief that they could control their destiny, which, as we shall see, they couldn’t.
The problems that had been Obama's problems for the past eight years were about to become Trump's problems. But his people didn't seem to want to know about them.
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 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...
That was the moment I gave up on decision analysis, said Danny. No one ever made a decision because of a number. They need a story. As Danny and Lanir wrote, decades later, after the U.S. Central Inte...
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...
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.
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.
His life was dedicated to the fine art of tearing down and building anew.
Anti-intellectual resentment is common in all of American life and it has many diverse expressions,
After the war Avi, by then twenty-two years old, finally decided what he would study: psychology. Had you asked him just then why he picked psychology, I would say I want to understand the human soul....
A thought crossed his mind: How do you make poor people feel wealthy when wages are stagnant? You give them cheap loans.
Good science is to see what everyone else can see but think what no one else has ever said.
When you are a pessimist and the bad thing happens, you live it twice, Amos