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I'd Stumbled Into A Job At Salomon Brothers In 1985, And Stumbled Out, Richer, In 1988, And Even Though I Wrote A Book About The Experience, The Whole Thing Still Strikes Me Me As Totally Preposterous-which Is One Reason The Money Was So Easy To Walk Away From.

All That Was Clear That The Profits To Be Had From Smart People Making Complicated Bets Overwhelmed Anything That Could Be Had From Servicing Customers, Or Allocating Capital To Productive Enterprise.

A Tourist Can't Help But Have A Distorted Opinion Of A Place: He Meets Unrepresentative People, Has Unrepresentative Experiences, And Runs Around Imposing Upon The Place The Fantastic Mental Pictures He Had In His Head When He Got There.

Book Tours Are Almost Designed To Beat Out Of An Author Any Affection He Has For His Book.

At Sgi Board Meetings... Jim Clark's Face Would Get Red And He'd Start Shouting That An Investor And Board Member Had Cheated Him And His Engineers.