“Everything, in retrospect, is obvious. But if everything were obvious, authors of histories of financial folly would be rich . . .”
― Panic!: The Story of Modern Financial Insanity
― Panic!: The Story of Modern Financial Insanity
“The men on the trading floor may not have been to school, but they have Ph.D.’s in man’s ignorance.”
― Liar's Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street
― Liar's Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street
“You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.”
― The Road
― The Road
“Those who know don't tell and those who tell don't know.”
― Liar's Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street
― Liar's Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street
“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 baseball. The same intellectual resources might have cured the common cold, or put a man on Pluto.”
― Moneyball
― Moneyball
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