Darin Strauss Quotes

Michael Lewis has the amazing ability to take complex formulas and concepts and turn them into page-turners.

I think one problem we've had is that people who are smart and creative and innovative as engineers went into financial engineering.

I've always been covered by a press that's mostly financial press.

If you have read me for any length of time, you know I am less than enthralled with much of what passes for financial news.

It is a truth universally acknowledged on Wall Street that original research is on life support. Serious research can be bad for business, as well as expensive.

I'm not wedded to covering the markets. I'm intrigued by the markets. If I can connect Main Street with Wall Street, then I've succeeded.

I'm not a Wall Street expert, but I can read the papers.

Bankers are doing God’s Work!

My initial desire to blog came from something that's always been my approach to investing - I'm a nerd, and I love to play with the technology, and part of my approach has really been to understand things both at a user level and at a reasonably deep tentacle level.

From the late '70s to the early '90s, I wrote anything anybody would pay me for. This ranged from articles on how to clean a longhorn cow's skull for living-room decoration to manuals on elementary math instruction on the Apple II... to a slew of software reviews and application articles done for the computer press.

I did get introduced to the financial markets while I was in college. And I think I learned also how to sort of filter out all of the nonrational, or nonsensible, noise and sort of concentrate on what matters, and that's really what markets are about.

When I was 23, 24, I started covering hedge funds - a lot of this was luck - when no one else did. This was before hedge funds were the prettiest girl in school: this was pre-nose job and treadmill for hedge funds, when nobody talked to them - back then, it was just all about insurance companies and money managers.

With platforms like Netflix, things are evolving as they are making content-driven films and series.

There are people who do things in tech that have the same skill sets that journalists have. They write, they edit, they put out press releases.

Citadel is a global technology leader, recognized for its work to level the playing field for investors and make markets more fair, transparent and efficient. I look forward to leading this exemplary team as we grow this global business.

My father was an investment banker, a stock broker.

I don't know about technology and I don't know about finance and accounting.

It's natural that you'd have more brains going into money management. There are so many huge incomes in money management and investment banking - it's like ants to sugar. There are huge incentives for a man to take up money management as opposed to, say, physics, and it's a lot easier.

Political scientists don't work at banks which is a problem. As political issues become more important for the markets, analysts at banks are asked all sorts of questions they don't have the ability to answer. And if you're getting paid to answer questions as analysts at banks are you never want to be in the position of saying you don't know.

Dear Mother, I am getting on nicely in my work at the bank, and like it ... I want to find out something about the science of money while I am at it; it is an extraordinarily interesting subject.

Read Ben Graham and Phil Fisher read annual reports, but don't do equations with Greek letters in them.

The YouTube video maker gets more out of making a video than you get out of watching it.

I don't like all this business stuff. I like stocks.

These days, everyone is a writer, producer and movie star. You post something on the web, get enough hits, and suddenly you have TV show.

Investing in stocks is an art, not a science, and people who've been trained to rigidly quantify everything have a big disadvantage.