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William Poundstone comments in Priceless: The Psychology of Hidden Value:
Dr. David Lewis • The Brain Sell: How the new mind sciences and the persuasion industry are reading our thoughts, influencing our emotions, and stimulating us to shop
Ray Cornwall
@raycornwall
Steve Ross (former CEO of Time Warner), was to “be a bear, be a bull, but never a pig.” You can’t treat people like they’re disposable because . . . they aren’t.
Quincy Jones • 12 Notes: On Life and Creativity
After the purge of the Pai regime, a veteran trader from wholesale named Don Black was brought in to take over the trading desk. After he’d been there for a while, Black summed up his EES experience this way to a colleague: “It’s like going to work every day with your hair on fire and nothing to put it out with but a hammer.”
Peter Elkind • The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron
Clement Parramon • Finance in the Gaming Industry
They are efficient with respect to the information they manipulate and convey: As a one-dimensional price, it is the absolute minimum required for participants to interpret and sensibly respond.
Sacha Meyers • Bitcoin Is Venice: Essays on the Past and Future of Capitalism
Anthony Bradley
@adbradley
Intrinsic pricing power is created when price is not the most important factor in a customer’s purchase decision.