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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 512acb2 | Things do not happen. Things are made to happen." --JOHN F. KENNEDY" | Brad Thor | ||
| ba84fe6 | Dark pools were another rogue spawn of the new financial marketplace. Private stock exchanges, run by the big brokers, they were not required to reveal to the public what happened inside them. They reported any trade they executed, but they did so with sufficient delay that it was impossible to know exactly what was happening in the broader market at the moment the trade occurred. | Michael Lewis | ||
| 29ea2de | That was the moment I gave up on decision analysis," said Danny. "No one ever made a decision because of a number. They need a story." As Danny and Lanir wrote, decades later, after the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency asked them to describe their experience in decision analysis, the Israeli Foreign Ministry was "indifferent to the specific probabilities." | Michael Lewis | ||
| 6d96685 | But everyone wanted to be a Big Swinging Dick, even the women. Big Swinging Dickettes. | success wall-street | Michael Lewis | |
| 6678153 | The world's not just a stage. It's a casino, and our lives are games of chance. And when people calculate the odds in any life situation, they are often making judgments about similarity--or (strange new word!) representativeness. You | Michael Lewis | ||
| 782e070 | In 2005 Rick Santorum, a senator from AccuWeather's home state of Pennsylvania and a recipient of Myers family campaign contributions, introduced a bill that would have written this idea into law. The bill was a little vague, but it appeared to eliminate the National Weather Service's website or any other means of communication with the public. It allowed the Weather Service to warn people about the weather just before it was about to kill .. | Michael Lewis | ||
| cd0b778 | It was hard to know which of Billy's qualities was most important to his team's success: his energy, his resourcefulness, his intelligence, or his ability to scare the living shit out of even very large professional baseball players. | Michael Lewis | ||
| 0ca0e65 | That's all right," says Billy. "We're blending what we see but we aren't allowing ourselves to be victimized by what we see." | Michael Lewis | ||
| d95835d | What Gutfreund said has become a legend at Salomon Brothers and a visceral part of its corporate identity. He said: "One hand, one million dollars, no tears." | game john-gutfreund john-meriwether liars-poker salomon-brothers wall-street | Michael Lewis | |
| af6b37a | It 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 Lewis | ||
| 663e063 | Thus the only Goldman Sachs employee arrested by the FBI in the aftermath of a financial crisis Goldman had done so much to fuel was the employee Goldman asked the FBI to arrest. | Michael Lewis | ||
| edbdac7 | I have this theory," says Andy Stone, seated in his office at Prudential-Bache Securities. "Wall Street makes its best producers into managers. The reward for being a good producer is to be made a manager. The best producers are cutthroat, competitive, and often neurotic and paranoid. You turn those people into managers, and they go after each other. They no longer have the outlet for their instincts that producing gave them. They usually a.. | Michael Lewis | ||
| 8117cc7 | It was like a broken slot machine in the casino that pays off every time. It would keep paying off until someone said something about it; but no one who played the slot machine had any interest in pointing out that it was broken. | Michael Lewis | ||
| 8bde9f7 | No true love is possible, Lewis demonstrates, until we abandon our claims, our rights, our grievances. Until then we will be trapped in the obscurity of our heart's mixed motives, our will to possess, to control, to be our own gods. | control cslewis life love rights wisdom | Michael D. O'Brien | |
| d714af7 | If there was a single lesson I took away from Salomon Brothers, it is that rarely do all parties win. The nature of the game is zero sum. A dollar out of my customer's pocket was a dollar in ours, and vice versa. | Michael Lewis | ||
| 9cbde13 | The only thing any of us can do completely on our own is to have the start of a good idea. | Michael Lewis | ||
| 1e04499 | The bad scorn the good . . . and the crooked despise the straight." ~Greville" | Dick Francis | ||
| 8b3d772 | The lesson here is that a giant cupcake tattoo is typically an indication of two things: (1) Sister go her hands on some crystal meth, and (2) Sister smoked that crystal meth and kept smoking it until she had been awake for seven days and then stumbled into a tattoo parlor with a really bad idea that she had quickly sketched on a napkin from Carl's Jr. | Laurie Notaro | ||
| 3935199 | As soon as Nicholas was born, my mother swore she'd rather see her daughters become Jehovah's Witnesses or pole dancers before she saw her first grandchild in daycare when my sister went back to work. I don't think it was originally the idea of daycare that didn't sit well with her but the fact that there, in a bassinet, was a fresh slate, a lump of clay that could be worked on and molded into the perfect child who had eluded her the first .. | Laurie Notaro | ||
| 80575c6 | Happiness can not be traveled to,owned,earned or worn.It is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love,grace&gratitude. | Denis Waitley | ||
| 36ed1c3 | This life we endure - how strange, yet how jolly | jimmy-corrigan | Chris Ware | |
| a970b02 | just as real events are forgotten, some that never were can be in our memories as if they had happened. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 92322b9 | When the Path Is Blocked When the path is blocked, back up and see more of the way. We are each a mountain for the other to climb, and often our path to love is interrupted by a mishap or a problem or something unexpected that needs attending. We tend to call these unexpected things in life "obstacles." Often the thing in the way comes from another person: a stubbornness falls like a tree blocking where we want to go, or a sadness comes lik.. | Mark Nepo | ||
| 4da7117 | The things that frighten us just want to be held. | Mark Nepo | ||
| f0b6d24 | To Marry One's Soul Being true to who we are means carrying our spirit like a candle in the center of our darkness. If we are to live without silencing or numbing essential parts of who we are, a vow must be invoked and upheld within oneself. The same commitments we pronounce when embarking on a marriage can be understood internally as a devotion to the care of one's soul: to have and to hold ... for better or for worse ... in sickness and .. | Mark Nepo | ||
| d286415 | It takes six million grains of pollen to seed one peony, and salmon need a lifetime of swimming to find their way home, so we mustn't be alarmed or discouraged when it takes us years to find love or years to understand our calling in life. Everything in nature is given some form of resilience by which it can rehearse finding its way, so that, when it does, it is practiced and ready to seize its moment. This includes us. When things don't wo.. | Mark Nepo | ||
| 389ac04 | The human soul is to God is as the flower to the sun; it opens at its approach, and shuts when it withdraws. --BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE | Mark Nepo | ||
| f4f4ea7 | He woke up blinking with a slight pain in his head and opened his eyes upon a world boiling in chaos in which everything was in proper order. | order | Joseph Heller | |
| 09c19f1 | Major Major's father was a sober God-fearing man whose idea of a good joke was to lie about his age. He was a long-limbed farmer, a God-fearing, freedom-loving, law-abiding rugged individualist who held that federal aid to anyone but farmers was creeping socialism. He advocated thrift and hard work and disapproved of loose women who turned him down. His specialty was alfalfa, and he made a good thing out of not growing any. The government p.. | Joseph Heller | ||
| 9c26f6d | Because he needed a friend so desperately, he never found one. | Joseph Heller | ||
| eaf1fe8 | Since he had nothing better to do well in, he did well in school. | Joseph Heller | ||
| d8a5064 | The dead man in Yossarian's tent was a pest, and Yossarian didn't like him, even though he had never seen him. Having him laying around all day annoyed Yossarian so much that he had gone to the orderly room several times to complain to Sergeant Towser, who refused to admit that the dead man even existed, which, of course, he no longer did. | Joseph Heller | ||
| e5414ce | And don't tell me God works in mysterious ways," Yossarian continued. ... "There's nothing mysterious about it, He's not working at all. He's playing. Or else He's forgotten all about us. That's the kind of God you people talk about, a country bumpkin, a clumsy, bungling, brainless, conceited, uncouth hayseed. Good God, how much reverence can you have for a Supreme Being who finds it necessary to include such phenomena as phlegm and tooth d.. | Joseph Heller | ||
| 944911a | There is so much ignorant prejudice against bees in a dining-room. | Patrick o'brian | ||
| d41c4be | We men are the slaves of prejudice,' he had once said to her. 'But when a woman decides to sleep with a man, there is no wall she will not scale, no fortress she will not destroy, no moral consideration she will not ignore at its very root: there is no God worth worrying about. | love-in-the-time-of-cholera sex women | Gabriel García Márquez | |
| e7cabda | One never quite stops believing,' said the Marquis. 'Some doubt remains forever.' Abrenuncio understood. He had always thought that ceasing to believe caused a permanent scar in the place where one's faith had been, making it impossible to forget. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| d3c269c | El mundo avanza. Si, le dije, avanza, pero dando vueltas alrededor del sol. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 77d96d1 | Lo unico que me duele de morir, es que no sea de amor. | death-and-love love | Gabriel García Márquez | |
| 4339863 | Bana bir on yargi verin, dunyayi yerinden oynatayim. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 42e5191 | I continued working without a break, but in the middle of the third story...I felt myself tiring more than if I had been working on a novel. The same thing happened with the fourth. In fact, I did not have the energy to finish them. Now I know why: The effort involved in writing a short story is as intense as beginning a novel, where everything must be defined in the first paragraph: structure, tone, style, rhythm, length, and sometimes eve.. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 43c5351 | I told your daughter that she is like a rose." " True enough," said Lorenzo Daza "but one with too many thorns." | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 09e2f42 | The audacious telegraph operator took the flower from his buttonhole and said to her: "I give you my life in this rose." | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| c850546 | We are the orphans of our son. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 74fd7c0 | Florentino Ariza wrote everything with so much passion that even official documents seem to be about love. His bills of lading were rhymed no matter how he tried to avoid it, and routine business letters had a lyrical spirit that diminished their authority. | Gabriel García Márquez |