People don't like uncertainty, and their minds are tools for making sense of the world, even when the world is senseless.

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.

Every form of strength is also a form of weakness.

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

The only thing history teaches us, a wise man once said, is that history doesn’t teach us anything.

The Red Sox are a curious thing because so much here is media driven. You can't go fire half your scouts here because they are all friends with the local reporters. Your life is going to hell in the papers.

In Wall Street now, you have to hide what you're doing. It's more fun when you don't have to do that. But I don't think its sense of purpose has changed at all.