When I trade, I don't have an agency problem; I have my neck on the line. When a bank or banker trades, it's not his neck on the line.

I don't know anyone on Wall Street who goes to work every day thinking of anything but how to increase their bonus.

Answer e-mails from junior people before more senior ones. Junior people have further to go and tend to remember who slighted them.

Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love; close enough on the surface but, to the non-sucker, not exactly the same thing.

You find peace by coming to terms with what you don't know.

The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary.

Love without sacrifice is like theft