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

Failure saves lives. In the airline industry, every time a plane crashes the probability of the next crash is lowered by that.

A verbal threat is the most authentic certificate of impotence.

Stoicism is about the *domestication* of emotions, not their elimination.

A prophet is not someone with special visions, just someone blind to most of what others see

Never take advice from someone wearing a tie.

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