I don't read the papers; I stopped reading the papers. I read the papers only during periods of crisis, and I think papers are too long on a regular day and too short days when we have a crisis.

In the United States large corporations control some members of Congress. All this does is delay the corporation’s funeral at our expense.

Make sure that you are in a situation where the constant mistakes are small and can be used for something.

I want them poor and they deserve to be poor. You can't have capitalism without punishment.

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

To be completely cured of newspapers, spend a year reading the previous week's newspapers.

My point taken further is that True and False (hence what we call "belief") play a poor, secondary role in human decisions; it is the payoff from the True and the False that dominates-and it is almost always asymmetric, with one consequence much bigger than the other, i.e., harboring positive and negative asymmetries (fragile or antifragile). Let me explain.