People focus on role models; it is more effective to find antimodels - people you don't want to resemble when you grow up

What America does best is produce the ability to accept failure.

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

Is the economy something organic or is it something engineered? I think it's closer to the organic. You harm it by artificially suppressing volatility in it.

Comfort makes you weaker. We need some variability, some stressors. Not too much, but just enough.

Most so-called writers keep writing and writing with the hope, some day, to find something to say.

Karl Marx, a visionary, figured out that you can control a slave much better by convincing him he is an employee.