Every form of strength is also a form of weakness.

The sports world is an echo chamber. All it takes is one quote from a general manager and a thousand sports columns bloom.

I was gonna put him on the bus...I got tired of him talking, it was time for him to go home.

You could argue the banks are much better capitalised than they were going into the crisis, and everyone's in a much more vigilant state because they still remember the crisis.

In their leaders, advisers, and experts, people much prefer overconfidence, total certainty, to any kind of doubt.

My client loved risk. Risk, I had learned, was a commodity in itself. Risk could be canned and sold like tomatoes.

Thirdly-but not lastly-there was the bias toward what people saw with their own eyes, or thought they had seen. The human mind played tricks on itself when it relied exclusively on what it saw. There was a lot you couldn't see when you watched a game