The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution

by Gregory Zuckerman

“‘God gave me a tail to keep off the flies. But I’d rather have had no tail and no flies.’ That’s kind of the way I feel about publicity.”

Money Isn’t Everything

“The lesson was: Do what you like in life, not what you feel you ‘should’ do,” Simons says. “It’s something I never forgot.”