All of a sudden the market is all about algos and routers.

Managers tend to pick a strategy that is the least likely to fail, rather then to pick a strategy that is most efficient," Said Palmer. " The pain of looking bad is worse than the gain of making the best move.

In their leaders, advisers, and experts, people much prefer overconfidence, total certainty, to any kind of doubt.

I was gonna put him on the bus...I got tired of him talking, it was time for him to go home.

In Japan, mothers insist on achievement and accomplishment as a sign of love and respect. Thus to fail places children in a highly shamed situation.

Baseball has so much history and tradition. You can respect it, or you can exploit it for profit, but it's still being made all over the place, all the time.

My client loved risk. Risk, I had learned, was a commodity in itself. Risk could be canned and sold like tomatoes.