The fastest way to become rich is to socialize with the poor; the fastest way to become poor is to socialize with the rich.

People who forecast simply because "that's my job," knowing pretty well that their forecast is ineffectual, are not what I would call ethical. What they do is no different from repeating lies simply because "it's my job."

The person you are most afraid to contradict is yourself.

You exist if and only if you are free to do things without a visible objective, with no justification and, above all, outside the dictatorship of someone else's narrative.

The curious mind embraces science; the gifted and sensitive, the arts; the practical, business; the leftover becomes an economist

...maximize the serendipity around you.

In economic life and history more generally, just about everything of consequence comes from black swans; ordinary events have paltry effects in the long term.