The men on the trading floor may not have been to school, but they have Ph.D.’s in man’s ignorance.

A banking system is an act of faith: it survives only for as long as people believe it will.

The Moulin Rouge is, like the West Village and the Nasdaq, one of those places that people who don't like to take risks come to for the thrill of being on the spot where risks once were taken.

There are several insights at the heart of the A’s system that I think are wonderful for baseball. One, that it’s a team game. That no one player is going to make that much of a difference to your team, so for god’s sake don’t go blow a quarter of your budget on one guy.

That's what happens when you're thirty-seven years old: you do the things you always did but the result is somehow different.

Jacks are home runs. So are dongs, bombs, and big flies. Baseball people express their fondness for a thing by thinking up lots of different ways to say it.

the lesson of Buffett was: To succeed in a spectacular fashion you had to be spectacularly unusual.