Dress your best on your execution day. Be extremely courteous to your assistant when you lose money. Try not to blame others for your fate, even if they deserve blame. Never exhibit any self-pity. Do not complain.

Never trust a journalist unless she's your mother.

Anything that provides you with very, very stable income, very stable conditions, maybe generally stable, that often, it masks real risks, risks of blow-ups.

Every social association that is not face-to-face is injurious to your health.

The track record of economists in predicting events is monstrously bad. It is beyond simplification; it is like medieval medicine.

Maximum of an average is necessarily less volatile than the average maximum

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.