I Think That Fans Are Always Looking

Just Because You've Been Successful And Just Because You've Disrupted An Environment, Doesn't Mean You're A Role Model Or That You Actually Have Anything To Teach Anybody. There's An Awful Lot Of Luck And Accident In The World, And Maybe You Were Just On The Receiving End Of That.

The Incentive For The Outsider Is To Attack The System Right Up To The Moment He Is Co-opted By It. The Incentive For The Insider -and This Took Some Getting Used To- Is To Allow Yourself To Be Attacked, And Then Co-opt Your Most Ferocious Attackers, And Their Best Ideas. The Effect On The System As A Whole Is To Make It More Stable, Because Everyone Winds Up Working On Its Behalf.

The Inability To Envision A Certain Kind Of Person Doing A Certain Kind Of Thing Because You've Never Seen Someone Who Looks Like Him Do It Before Is Not Just A Vice. It's A Luxury. What Begins As A Failure Of The Imagination Ends As A Market Inefficiency: When You Rule Out An Entire Class Of People From Doing A Job Simply By Their Appearance, You Are Less Likely To Find The Best Person For The Job.

There Are Several Insights At The Heart Of The A’s System That I Think Are Wonderful For Baseball. One, That It’s A Team Game. That No One Player Is Going To Make That Much Of A Difference To Your Team, So For God’s Sake Don’t Go Blow A Quarter Of Your Budget On One Guy.

You Can Anchor The Mind Into Answering A Question A Certain Way By Giving Them A Totally Unrelated Piece Of Information Dropped Before.