the lesson of Buffett was: To succeed in a spectacular fashion you had to be spectacularly unusual.
Michael LewisIt 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.
Michael LewisManagers 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.
Michael LewisDonald Trump got almost 3 million fewer votes than Hillary Clinton! He happened to get more in some of the right places. It was just like one of those things where a stock going up and people impose a false sense of order on it. It's really more intellectually honestly viewed as a disorderly process.
Michael Lewis