I always remind myself that what one observes is at best a combination of variance and returns, not just returns.

Success is about honour, feeling morally calibrated, absence of shame, not what some newspaper defines from an external metric.

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

They think that intelligence is about noticing things are relevant (detecting patterns); in a complex world, intelligence consists in ignoring things that are irrelevant (avoiding false patterns)

I remind myself of Einstein's remark that common sense is nothing but a collection of misconceptions acquired by age 18.

Suckers think that you cure greed with money, addiction with substances, expert problems with experts, banking with bankers, economics with economists, and debt crises with debt spending

Avoid losers. If you hear someone use the words 'impossible', 'never', 'too difficult' too often, drop him or her from your social network.