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The Lesson Of Buffett Was: To Succeed In A Spectacular Fashion You Had To Be Spectacularly Unusual.

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.

Everything, In Retrospect, Is Obvious. But If Everything Were Obvious, Authors Of Histories Of Financial Folly Would Be Rich . . .

He Was Blessed With An Unconventional Mind, Which Overcame His Conventional Middle-class Upbringing.

My Client Loved Risk. Risk, I Had Learned, Was A Commodity In Itself. Risk Could Be Canned And Sold Like Tomatoes.