If you see fraud and do not say fraud, you are a fraud.

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.

The traits I respect are erudition and the courage to stand up when half-men are afraid for their reputation. Any idiot can be intelligent.

Never take advice from anyone in a tie. They'll bankrupt you. Don't ask a general for advice on war, and don't ask a broker for advice on money.

To be completely cured of newspapers, spend a year reading the previous week's newspapers.

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

Those who were unlucky in life in spite of their skills would eventually rise. The lucky fool might have benefited from some luck in life; over the longer run he would slowly converge to the state of a less-lucky idiot. Each one would revert to his long-term properties.