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The city does seem like they wanna work with us even though they passed this particular ordinance that none of us are too happy about.


Barry Grigsby

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BARRY SANDERS The game is the ultimate significance to me because it is so important to a lot of people. It has le...
BARRY SANDERS I don't want to get too detailed into it, but when you're a good high school running back, y...
BARRY SANDERS As a kid, I played my share of football in the street or in a vacant lot.
BARRY SANDERS I'm not better than anyone else. I'm not supposed to be on a pedestal. I've always staye...
BARRY SANDERS Individual goals never meant that much to me. The Heisman is no exception.
BARRY SANDERS Life doesn't stop with football.
BARRY SANDERS I quit because I didn't feel like the Detroit Lions had a chance to win. It just killed my enjoy...
BARRY SANDERS Let's just win it and go home.
BARRY SANDERS My desire to exit the game is greater than my desire to remain in it. I have searched my heart throu...
BARRY SANDERS I really love peace and quiet.
BARRY SANDERS You know, I'm fairly intelligent, but I don't think my grades reflected that.
BARRY SANDERS It was a wonderful experience to play in the NFL, and I have no regrets. I truly will miss playing f...
BARRY SANDERS Nothing ever turns out the way people expect it to.
BARRY SANDERS Many hedge fund managers have become billionaires; perhaps this - plus their reputations as the smar...
BARRY RITHOLTZ The simple reality of life is that everyone is wrong on a regular basis. By confronting these inevit...
BARRY RITHOLTZ History is replete with examples of tech firms that were marginalized by new companies and technolog...
BARRY RITHOLTZ A well-designed 401(k) plan is an enormous competitive edge when recruiting and retaining employees.
BARRY RITHOLTZ Hedge fund managers charge so much more than mutual fund managers; alpha is even harder to come by. ...
BARRY RITHOLTZ Rather than engage in the sort of selective retention that so many investors tend to do and pretend ...
BARRY RITHOLTZ You can blow on the dice all you want, but whether they come up 'seven' is still a function ...
BARRY RITHOLTZ Investing is about making probabilistic decisions with limited information about an unknowable futur...
BARRY RITHOLTZ Based on a lifetime of observations and a few decades in the markets, I understand that societies, b...
BARRY RITHOLTZ Never forget this simple truism: Forecasting is marketing, plain and simple.
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