They [some countries] borrowed money to go acquire things, Indian power plants and Danish newspapers and British soccer teams. And they did it willy-nilly, and they themselves a story, that Icelandic history and culture and DNA leaves us very well-suited to being investment bankers.

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.

He was blessed with an unconventional mind, which overcame his conventional middle-class upbringing.

When something happens people didn't predict, they find ways to explain it as if it were predictable.

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

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

If you're the kind of kid who thinks that all that's important in life is making money, Wall Street is probably still the place to go, especially now that Trump's elected.