Never trust a journalist unless she's your mother.

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.

A good maxim allows you to have the last word without even starting a conversation.

There are secrets to our world that only practice can reveal, and no opinion or analysis will ever capture in full.

Alan Greenspan is unskilled; you don't take the unskilled seriously.

Don't aim to be perfect! Aim to be antifragile

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