At SGI board meetings... Jim Clark's face would get red and he'd start shouting that an investor and board member had cheated him and his engineers.

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.

There's something bad in everything good and something good in everything bad.

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

One absolutely cannot tell, by watching, the difference between a .300 hitter and a .275 hitter. The difference is one hit every two weeks.

Hollywood would much prefer the author be dead, so that they can buy the book and do what they want to do with it.

I didn't think one day something would happen that would bring me back to Wall Street to write what is essentially a sequel.