The astute investor Warren Buffett is fond of saying that any player unaware of the fool in the market probably is the fool in the market.
Men in general judge more by the sense of sight than by the sense of touch, because everyone can see but only a few can test by feeling. Everyone sees what you seem to be, few know what you really are...
Los psicólogos de finales de los años cuarenta habían detectado, o afirmaban haber detectado, que la mente tenía la capacidad para defenderse de lo que en apariencia no quería percibir.
It’s the worldview in which if people tip in a restaurant to which they will never return it counts as a puzzle.
The author refers to a player's affected nonchalance and comments he is, too young to realize you are what you pretend to be.
Reg NMS was intended to create equality of opportunity in the U.S. stock market. Instead it institutionalized a more pernicious inequality. A small class of insiders with the resources to create speed...
Psychologists have long known that people see patterns where none exist.
It’s the places in our government where the cameras never roll that you have to worry about most.
In something like an instant the man had changed his life. He reinvented his relationship to the world around him in a way that is considered normal only in California.
I share your feeling that such behavior is, in some sense, unwise or erroneous, but this does not mean that it does not occur,' Amos wrote to an American economist who complained about the description...
Dont worry about where i am , i'll let you know when i get there .
Charlie Ledley—curiously uncertain Charlie Ledley—was odd in his belief that the best way to make money on Wall Street was to seek out whatever it was that Wall Street believed was least likely to hap...
Reality is a cloud of possibility, not a point.
In the red southern states the mayor sometimes would say, Can you not mention that the government gave this?
In context the computer programmers appeared idle. They sat quietly, stared into their screens and sipped cappuccinos. And yet they were by far the most important people on board Hyperion.
If you want to weaken some stereotype, eliminate the classification.
I really do believe the final act in play is a crisis in our financial institutions, which are doing such dumb, dumb things,
Every day, the markets were driven less directly by human beings and more directly by machines. The machines were overseen by people, of course, but few of them knew how the machines worked. He knew t...
Baseball has so much history and tradition. You can respect it, or you can exploit it for profit, but it's still being made all over the place, all the time.
The sheer quantity of brain power that hurled itself voluntarily and quixotically into the search for new baseball knowledge was either exhilarating or depressing, depending on how you felt about base...