I don't know anyone on Wall Street who goes to work every day thinking of anything but how to increase their bonus.

By all means, avoid words—threats, complaints, justification, narratives, reframing, attempts to win arguments, supplications; avoid words!

You don't become completely free by just avoiding being a slave; you also need to avoid becoming a master.

The bonus for bankers fragilizes the system. Someone has the upside at the expense of others.

What is nonmeasurable and nonpredictable will remain nonmeasurable and nonpredictable ... no matter how much hate mail I get.

We favor the visible, the embedded, the personal, the narrated, and the tangible; we scorn the abstract.

In science you need to understand the world; in business you need others to misunderstand it.