“It’s not going to happen overnight. It is going to take years.”

“You know what my thing is. This is my thing. I love the markets. This is what I do.”

“What is your thing?”

“That’s not true, everybody has a thing.”

“That’s admirable.”

“What?”

“No, now is the worst time to buy stocks, ever. But I am buying them anyway.”

“Tell you in a minute. Let me ask you a question. Are you bored?”

“You know, same woman, same town, same job, same everything.”

“I am bored.”

“I don’t know, man, you tell me. What are you supposed to do with your life after you make two billion dollars? Make another two billion dollars?”

“I don’t want to take up skydiving. This is skydiving. I don’t need an adrenaline rush, I get plenty of that at work.”

“It’s not so much that I’m bored, it is that I have literally done everything I have ever wanted to do.”

“No. There is nothing left.”

“Look. I bought a motorcycle recently. Nobody knows this. You know why I bought a motorcycle? Because it’s fun. And dangerous. You see, life is completely random. I could get greased on some back road in the woods and it would mean absolutely nothing. Oh, sure, people would try and draw some meaning from it, they would say, that billionaire Weber guy, what a jackass, riding a motorcycle, but it would have no meaning at all. I would be coming around a corner the same time a truck was coming around a corner and it would be completely fucking random.”

“There is a difference. All I am saying is that life is random and the errors should be unbiased.”

“That’s what I’m struggling with.”

“Yes, that’s kind of why I called you. Let me ask you a question. What if you flipped a coin a thousand times and it came up heads a thousand times in a row. Would you still believe that life was random, or would you think that there was something funny about that coin?”

“I know. You’re a smart guy; you would know that answer to something like that. If millions of people are out there flipping coins, one of them is going to come up heads a thousand times in a row. You ever ask yourself: what does it feel like to be that guy?”

“You remember reading in the Guinness Book of World Records about the guy that got struck by lightning seven times?”

“You do remember? Do you remember what happened to that guy?”

“He killed himself. Do you know why?”

“Because he was the guy whose coin came up tails a thousand times in a row. Even if life is random, which it probably is, some people are going to win and some people are going to lose, and lose big. When that happens, you think someone is out to get you.”

“Nobody is out to get me. Someone is out to help me.”

“I don’t believe in God. You know that. But let me ask you another question: why has my coin come up heads a thousand times in a row?”