Quote #99

'It's got to be the best intellectual exercise out there. You're seeing through new situations every ten minutes:In the stock market you don't base your decisions on what the market is doing, but on what you think is rational:.Bridge is about weighing gain/loss ratios. You're doing calculations all the time.' Forbes. June 2, 1997.[1]

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