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.

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.

Hard work will get you a professorship or a BMW. You need both work and luck for a Booker, a Nobel or a private jet.

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

If you don't feel that you haven't read enough, you haven't read enough.

By all means, avoid words—threats, complaints, justification, narratives, reframing, attempts to win arguments, supplications; avoid words!

Fragility is the quality of things that are vulnerable to volatility.