Being an entrepreneur is an existential, not just a financial thing.

We tend to treat our knowledge as personal property to be protected and defended. It is an ornament that allows us to rise in the pecking order. [...] We take what we know a little too seriously.

Meditation is a way to be narcissistic without hurting anyone

The classical man's worst fear was inglorious death; the modern man's worst fear is just death

The person you are most afraid to contradict is yourself.

I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the human is not God in God's terms. My God isn't the God of George Bush.

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.