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1987, I happened to be hovering around the fortieth floor of One New York
Michael Lewis • Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt
“He was a terrific listener,” Neuwirth says. “It’s one thing to have good ideas, it’s another to recognize when others do. . . . If there was a pony in your pile of horse manure, he would find it.”
Gregory Zuckerman • The Man Who Solved the Market
made serious and innovative architecture accessible to people who would normally have no interest whatsoever in such things.
Paul Goldberger • Building Art
Gould did not take a title, but had a seat on the executive committee and had four additional board seats, which he filled with his brokers.
Charles R. Morris • The Tycoons: How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy
The low gear in which plot stuff proceeds in sections 1 and 2 is intentional.”
D. T. Max • Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace
We hired Milton Pollack, a brilliant lawyer who later became a distinguished federal judge. The suit unfolded slowly, and I fell into a ritual of having dinner with Pollack once a month during which he would update me on our progress and his methods. At that time he had a daughter in elementary school; he told me that before he asked any question o
... See moreEugene Linden • The Mind of Wall Street: A Legendary Financier on the Perils of Greed and the Mysteries of the Market
Perkins supplied the objectivity and perspective toward the material that Wolfe lacked.