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

A Stoic is someone who transforms fear into prudence, pain into transformation, mistakes into initiation, and desire into undertaking.

If you sat with a pencil and jotted down all the decisions you've taken in the past week, or, if you could, over your lifetime, you would realize that almost all of them have had asymmetric payoff, with one side carrying a larger consequence than the other. You decide principally based on fragility, not probability. Or to rephrase, You decide principally based on fragility, not so much on True/False.

In science you need to understand the world; in business you need others to misunderstand it.

We should reward people, not ridicule them, for thinking the impossible.

If something is going on, I hear about it. I like to talk to people, I socialise. Television is a waste of time. Human contact is what matters.

Hard work will get you a professorship or a BMW. You need both work and luck for a Booker, a Nobel or a private jet.