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.

The person you are most afraid to contradict is yourself.

It does not matter how frequently something succeeds if failure is too costly to bear.

I hated school because I liked to daydream and the system tried to stop me from that.

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

But they never notice the following inconsistency: this so-called worst-case event, when it happened, exceeded the worst case at the time.

To succeed in life requires a total inability to do anything that makes you uncomfortable when you look at yourself in the mirror.