Let me know what your problem is, and I will try to make it more difficult for you.

A board member should be perfectly willing to leave at any time and willing to make the tough calls.

As I continued through Cicero's pages, I found much more material celebrating my way of life.

I think we have lost our way when people like the [board of] governors and the CEO of the NYSE fail to realize they have a duty to the rest of us to act as exemplars... You do not want your first-grade school teacher to be fornicating on the floor or drinking booze in the classroom; similarly you do not want your stock exchange to be setting the wrong moral example.

I have a name for people who went to the extreme efficient market theory-which is "bonkers". It was an intellectually consistent theory that enabled them to do pretty mathematics. So I understand its seductiveness to people with large mathematical gifts. It just had a difficulty in that the fundamental assumption did not tie properly to reality.

You must force yourself to consider opposing arguments. Especially when they challenge your best loved ideas.

All I want to know is where I’m going to die, so I’ll never go there