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.

Baseball is this intense subculture that actually doesn't speak very much for the larger culture.

The pleasure of rooting for Goliath is that you can expect to win. The pleasure of rooting for David is that, while you don’t know what to expect, you stand at least a chance of being inspired.

As idiotic as optimism can sometimes seem, it has a weird habit of paying off.

When you're trying to create a career as a writer, a little delusional thinking goes a long way.

In Japan, mothers insist on achievement and accomplishment as a sign of love and respect. Thus to fail places children in a highly shamed situation.

A banking system is an act of faith: it survives only for as long as people believe it will.

Above all, recognize that if you have had success, you have also had luck — and with luck comes obligation. You owe a debt, and not just to your Gods. You owe a debt to the unlucky.

A credit default swap was confusing mainly because it wasn't really a swap at all. It was an insurance policy, typically on a corporate bond, with semiannual premium payments and a fixed term.

One absolutely cannot tell, by watching, the difference between a .300 hitter and a .275 hitter. The difference is one hit every two weeks.

People don't like uncertainty, and their minds are tools for making sense of the world, even when the world is senseless.

I've been through a lot of things in my personal and family life. That turned me into a fighter. I always strive to be the best I possibly can.

If you like the post office and the Department of Motor Vehicles and you think they're run well, just wait till you see Medicare, Medicaid and health care done by the government.

But even in the Christian religion, much of its real meaning is hidden by words that are misleading and symbols that but few understand.

Managing innovation better may be the only way out of the abyss called commodity hell.

The proud man hath no God; the envious man hath no neighbor; the angry man hath not himself.

The Bolivarian revolution has no future and it has shown a lack of results.

He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.

If you give them a God made in their own image, I guarantee they'll accept Him. But He won't be the God who saves.

Life exists without rules; games cannot exist without rules. So real religion is always without rules; only false religion has rules, because false religion is a game.

In order to be the best, you have to know your breaking point-go to the edge of it, but never go beyond.