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The lesson of Buffett was: To succeed in a spectacular fashion you had to be spectacularly unusual.
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Warren Buffett is fond of saying that any player unaware of the fool in the market probably is the fool in the market.
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He was blessed with an unconventional mind, which overcame his conventional middle-class upbringing.
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Everything, in retrospect, is obvious. But if everything were obvious, authors of histories of financial folly would be rich...
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Everywhere you turn you see Americans sacrifice their long-term interests for a short-term reward.
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The only thing history teaches us, a wise man once said, is that history doesn't teach us anything.
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What are the odds that people will make smart decisions about money if they don't need to make smart decisions—if they can get rich making dumb decisions? The incentives on Wall Street were all wrong; they're still all wrong.
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Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
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Born:
October 15, 1960
(age 63)
Bio:
Michael Monroe Lewis is an American non-fiction author and financial journalist.
Known for:
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (2010)
Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt (2014)
Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game (2003)
The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game (2006)
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