If you let markets - in general, my belief is that if you let markets give you information, they'll give you the information rather than artificially prop up everything.

The person you are most afraid to contradict is yourself.

It might be useful to be able to predict war. But tension does not necessarily lead to war, but often to peace and to denouement.

Comfort makes you weaker. We need some variability, some stressors. Not too much, but just enough.

Few understand that procrastination is our natural defense, letting things take care of themselves and exercise their antifragility; it results from some ecological or naturalistic wisdom, and is not always bad - at an existential level, it is my body rebelling against its entrapment. It is my soul fighting the Procrustean bed of modernity.

Remember that you are a Black Swan.

Missing a train is only painful if you run after it! Likewise, not matching the idea of success others expect from you is only painful if that’s what you are seeking.