What America does best is produce the ability to accept failure.

When an investor focuses on short-term investments, he or she is observing the variability of the portfolio, not the returns - in short, being fooled by randomness.

Answer e-mails from junior people before more senior ones. Junior people have further to go and tend to remember who slighted them.

An erudite is someone who displays less than he knows; a journalist or consultant the opposite.

Make sure that you are in a situation where the constant mistakes are small and can be used for something.

Success is about honour, feeling morally calibrated, absence of shame, not what some newspaper defines from an external metric.

By setting oneself totally free of constraints, free of thoughts, free of this debilitating activity called work, free of efforts, elements hidden in the texture of reality start staring at you; then mysteries that you never thought existed emerge in front of your eyes.