Never ask a trader if he is profitable: you can easily see it in his gesture and gait.

To succeed in life requires a total inability to do anything that makes you uncomfortable when you look at yourself in the mirror.

I hated school because I liked to daydream and the system tried to stop me from that.

We know from chaos theory that even if you had a perfect model of the world, you'd need infinite precision in order to predict future events. With sociopolitical or economic phenomena, we don't have anything like that.

Most so-called writers keep writing and writing with the hope, some day, to find something to say.

Any system that is deprived of its natural volatility, with government up (unintelligible) volatile, any system becomes very fragile.

You never win an argument until they attack your person.