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.

People don't like uncertainty, and their minds are tools for making sense of the world, even when the world is senseless.

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.

The only thing history teaches us, a wise man once said, is that history doesn’t teach us anything.

He was ignorant, but a lot of people mistook ignorance for stupidity, and knowingness for intelligence.

It is far better to keep the enemy close, by bribing him with stock options, than to have him out in the wild, foraging.

Warren Buffett is fond of saying that any player unaware of the fool in the market probably is the fool in the market.