If you are in banking and lending, surprise outcomes are likely to be negative for you.

If my detractors knew me better they would hate me even more.

I'm a capitalist but one who is smallist and localist, and who favours businesses where owners are still in charge.

You have family-owned businesses that have been around for 500 years. You cannot name a corporation that survives intact for even a few decades.

When an investor focuses on short-term investments, he or she is observing the variability of the portfolio, not the returns - in short, being fooled by randomness.

Missing a train is only painful if you run after it! Likewise, not matching the idea of success others expect from you is only painful if that’s what you are seeking.

Janet Yellen at the FED is equivalent to having a biology schoolteacher who has never seen blood perform brain surgery.