People dislike uncertainty so much that they will impose an order on it even when it doesn't exist.

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.

A vast industry of stockbrokers, financial planners, and investment advisers skims a fortune for themselves off the top in exchange for passing their clients' money on to people who, as a whole, cannot possibly outperform the market.

Book tours are almost designed to beat out of an author any affection he has for his book.

The reason the Greeks don't pay taxes is they don't trust where their taxes are going, because they know these other Greeks are taking money from the state for doing nothing. So it's - it's an essentially corrupt society.

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

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.