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The World Clings To Its Old Mental Picture Of The Stock Market Because It’s Comforting; Because It’s So Hard To Draw A Picture Of What Has Replaced It; And Because The Few People Able To Draw It For You Have No Interest In Doing So.

The Inability To Envision A Certain Kind Of Person Doing A Certain Kind Of Thing Because You've Never Seen Someone Who Looks Like Him Do It Before Is Not Just A Vice. It's A Luxury. What Begins As A Failure Of The Imagination Ends As A Market Inefficiency: When You Rule Out An Entire Class Of People From Doing A Job Simply By Their Appearance, You Are Less Likely To Find The Best Person For The Job.

There Are Several Insights At The Heart Of The A’s System That I Think Are Wonderful For Baseball. One, That It’s A Team Game. That No One Player Is Going To Make That Much Of A Difference To Your Team, So For God’s Sake Don’t Go Blow A Quarter Of Your Budget On One Guy.

Wall Street Is Not Being Made A Scapegoat For This Crisis: They Really Did This.

You Want The Book To Be Special, And They Are Not Always Going To Be Special, But At Least You Want That To Be The Ambition. So The Only Way That Happens Is If You Are Not Pressing To Write A Book.