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Ryan Franks
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It took only a couple of weeks of working for Sam before Caroline Ellison called her mother and sobbed into the phone that she’d just made the biggest mistake of her life. She’d first met Sam at Jane Street, in the summer before her senior year at Stanford, after he’d been assigned to teach her class of interns how to trade. “I was kind of, like, t
... See moreMichael Lewis • Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
No business can trust everything and count nothing. Nor can any business count everything and trust nothing. It’s all a question of balance, although my own instincts lead me toward far less reliance on counting and far more reliance on trusting. Statistics—in charts, graphs, and tables—can be used to prove almost anything in business, but unquanti
... See moreJohn C. Bogle • Enough: True Measures of Money, Business, and Life
‘To find a man’s true character,’ P.G. Wodehouse observed, ‘play golf with him.’
Susie Dent • Dent's Modern Tribes: The Secret Languages of Britain
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Miles Gilbert
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Only the irrational behaviour survives - If you study the biographies of the greats or attend the funerals of people you care about — the normal rational behavior is never mentioned. It’s filled with stories that make the individual unique. It’s all the times they broke out of the median distribution of human behavior. If you want to create behavio
... See moreMy career has been a monument, not to brilliance or complexity, but to common sense and simplicity, “the uncanny ability,” as one observer has said of me, “to recognize the obvious.”