Heroes are heroes because they are heroic in behavior, not because they won or lost.

Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love; close enough on the surface but, to the non-sucker, not exactly the same thing.

We have this culture of financialization. People think they need to make money with their savings rather with their own business. So you end up with dentists who are more traders than dentists. A dentist should drill teeth and use whatever he does in the stock market for entertainment.

I don't know anyone on Wall Street who goes to work every day thinking of anything but how to increase their bonus.

You have family-owned businesses that have been around for 500 years. You cannot name a corporation that survives intact for even a few decades.

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

Scientists may be in the business of laughing at their predecessors, but owing to an array of human mental dispositions, few realize that someone will laugh at their beliefs in the (disappointingly near) future.