The totally unpredictable perceptions of market participants, reflected in momentary stock prices and in the changing multiples that drive speculative returns, essentially have counted for nothing.

all these Wall Street companies Sam had never heard of came to the job fair that year inside the MIT gym. And he became just a little curious about them. Even a few months earlier his curiosity would have surprised him. He’d never had the slightest interest in money. He neither knew nor cared about finance. Apart from a firmly held idea that he sho

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