The sports world is an echo chamber. All it takes is one quote from a general manager and a thousand sports columns bloom.
Michael LewisHe was blessed with an unconventional mind, which overcame his conventional middle-class upbringing.
Michael LewisThat was how a Salomon bond trader thought: He forgot whatever it was that he wanted to do for a minute and put his finger on the pulse of the market. If the market felt fidgety, if people were scared or desperate, he herded them like sheep into a corner, then made them pay for their uncertainty. He sat on the market until it puked gold coins. Then he worried about what he wanted to do.
Michael LewisPeople in the voting booth are not purely rational creatures any more than they're purely rational creatures outside the voting booth.
Michael Lewis