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

“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

“Robida in 1883 published cartoon pictures of flat television screens, test-tube babies, bomber airplanes, and chemical warfare. Robida understood, as Verne and Wells did not, that the twentieth would be the century of world wars.”
― Freeman Dyson, The Sun, the Genome and the Internet: Tools of Scientific Revolutions

“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