John Arnold: belief

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…Feeling you can do it better. Actually, it goes back to my life before my professional life. I always had this chip on my shoulder. Then really having this passion for it. You have to have the love of it, that this is the most important thing. I ate, breathed, and slept it. I would be thinking about it first thing in the shower in the morning. I would be dreaming about it. After work, I’d go out with people in the industry and talk about it. It was that real devotion to the markets. I think there was a timing component, that I always had great timing in my career. Then, certainly, luck’s a part of it. But an interesting feature of your career is, you walked away from all of this more or less at the top of your performance. If you’re so wrapped up in it, what’s your own model of yourself for how you could both walk away from it and be so wrapped up in it?…

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