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  1. Michael Lewis _ Moneyball: The Art of Winning

    Baseball is a soap opera that lends itself to probabilistic thinking. {Dick Cramer}
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  2. Michael Lewis _ Moneyball: The Art of Winning

    If you've got a dozen pitchers, you need to speak 12 different languages.
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  3. Michael Lewis _ Moneyball: The Art of Winning

    What happens when we acknowledge the sovereignty and power of God without trusting in His goodness and faithfulness? A pitcher who saw God's power behind his extremely unlikely rise to the big leagues wondered if, at any difficulty he encountered there, God might be taking his ability away.
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  4. Michael Lewis _ Moneyball: The Art of Winning

    There was but one question he left unasked, and it vibrated between his lines: if gross miscalculations of a person's value could occur on a baseball field, before a live audience of thirty thousand, and a television audience of millions more, what did that say about the measurement of performance in other lines of work? If professional baseball players could be over- or under valued, who couldn't?
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  5. Michael Lewis _ Moneyball: The Art of Winning

    No matter how successful you are, change is always good. There can never be a status quo. When you have no money you can't afford long-term solutions, only short-term ones. You have to always be upgrading. Otherwise you're fucked."
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  6. Michael Lewis _ Moneyball: The Art of Winning

    Years later he would say that when he'd decided to become a professional baseball player, it was the only time he'd done something just for the money, and that he'd never do something just for the money ever again. He would never again let the market dictate the direction of his life.
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  7. Michael Lewis _ Moneyball: The Art of Winning

    If you challenge conventional wisdom, you will find ways to do things much better than they are currently done.Bill James
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  8. Michael Lewis _ Moneyball: The Art of Winning

    The sheer quantity of brain power that hurled itself voluntarily and quixotically into the search for new baseball knowledge was either exhilarating or depressing, depending on how you felt about baseball. The same intellectual resources might have cured the common cold, or put a man on Pluto.
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  9. Michael Lewis _ Moneyball: The Art of Winning

    People in both fields operate with beliefs and biases. To the extent you can eliminate both and replace them with data, you gain a clear advantage.
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  10. Michael Lewis _ Moneyball: The Art of Winning

    The inability to envision a certain kind of person doing a certain kind of thing because you've never seen someone who looks like him do it before is not just a vice. It's a luxury. What begins as a failure of the imagination ends as a market inefficiency: when you rule out an entire class of people from doing a job simply by their appearance, you are less likely to find the best person for the job.
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  11. Michael Lewis _ Moneyball: The Art of Winning

    Every form of strength is also a form of weakness," he once wrote. "Pretty girls tend to become insufferable because, being pretty, their faults are too much tolerated. Possessions entrap men, and wealth paralyzes them. I learned to write because I am one of those people who somehow cannot manage the common communications of smiles and gestures, but must use words to get across things that other people would never need to say.
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  12. Michael Lewis _ Moneyball: The Art of Winning

    Managers tend to pick a strategy that is the least likely to fail, rather then to pick a strategy that is most efficient," Said Palmer. " The pain of looking bad is worse than the gain of making the best move.
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