Saul Klein

“Let specialists obsess about minutiae. Soros’s motto was “Invest first, investigate later.”
― Sebastian Mallaby, More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite

“For a privileged person, it means to look into one’s own privilege. And, he said, “you cannot change it by yourself. You can change the system only together. With charity, essentially, if you have money, you can do a lot of things alone.”
― Anand Giridharadas, Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World

“humility of the social sciences—the realization that development has to do with people, with human and social complexity, with cultural and traditional realities, and their willingness to struggle with the messy and multifaceted aspects of a problem—have no cachet in this metrics-driven, efficiency-seeking, technology-focused approach to social change.”
― Anand Giridharadas, Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World

“His goal was to ensure that once we had gone public and everyone’s stock had vested, we had a compensation system that was transparent and competitive, benchmarked against our peers. One that would ensure the long-term health of the business. He wanted to reward past and present partners and employees, yet leave enough in the pot for generations to come. It required a lot of analysis, but also a lot of judgment, understanding what people thought and felt and smoothing out any perceived differences.”
― Stephen A. Schwarzman, What It Takes: Lessons in the Pursuit of Excellence