There was but one question he left unasked, and it vibrated between his lines: if gross miscalculations of a person's value could occur on a baseball field, before a live audience of thirty thousand, and a television audience of millions more, what did that say about the measurement of performance in other lines of work? If professional baseball players could be over- or under valued, who couldn't?

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

What are the odds that people will make smart decisions about money if they don't need to make smart decisions--if they can get rich making dumb decisions? The incentives on Wall Street were all wrong; they're still all wrong.

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.

The sports world is an echo chamber. All it takes is one quote from a general manager and a thousand sports columns bloom.

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

Wall Street is not being made a scapegoat for this crisis: they really did this.