true humility is when you can surprise yourself more than others; the rest is either shyness or good marketing

If you roll dice, you know that the odds are one in six that the dice will come up on a particular side. So you can calculate the risk. But, in the stock market, such computations are bull - you don't even know how many sides the dice have!

You want failures to be small and informational. Silicon Valley does very well. It knows how to use failure as a tool for improvement.

Meditation is a way to be narcissistic without hurting anyone

If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry.

I want them poor and they deserve to be poor. You can't have capitalism without punishment.

People are much less interested in what you are trying to show them than what you are trying to hide.