It is the nature of being the general manager of a baseball team that you have to remain on familiar terms with people you are continually trying to screw.

I thought instead of a good rule for survival on Wall Street: Never agree to anything proposed on someone else's boat or you'll regret in in the morning.

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

People in both fields operate with beliefs and biases. To the extent you can eliminate both and replace them with data, you gain a clear advantage.

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

There has been this - and it's reflected in the broadcasts - this moronic use of statistics. Which has suggested to everyone who is intelligent the use of statistics is moronic.

Just because you've been successful and just because you've disrupted an environment, doesn't mean you're a role model or that you actually have anything to teach anybody. There's an awful lot of luck and accident in the world, and maybe you were just on the receiving end of that.