“He commuted to his Canadian office in a Ferrari, though sometimes snowy conditions forced him to use Bentley.”
― More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite
― More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite
“The CDO was, in effect, a credit laundering service for the residents of Lower Middle Class America. For Wall Street it was a machine that turned lead into gold.”
― The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
― The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
“I can well imagine an athiest's last words: "White, white! L-L-Love! My God!" - and the deathbed leap of faith. Whereas the agnostic, if he stays true to his reasonable self, if he stays beholden to dry, yeastless factuality, might try to explain the warm light bathing him by saying "Possibly a f-f-failing oxygenation of the b-b-brain," and, to the very end, lack imagination and miss the better story.”
― Life of Pi
― Life of Pi
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