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

Success is about honour, feeling morally calibrated, absence of shame, not what some newspaper defines from an external metric.

To be completely cured of newspapers, spend a year reading the previous week's newspapers.

Wittgenstein's ruler: Unless you have confidence in the ruler's reliability, if you use a ruler to measure a table you may also be using the table to measure the ruler.

Answer e-mails from junior people before more senior ones. Junior people have further to go and tend to remember who slighted them.

What is nonmeasurable and nonpredictable will remain nonmeasurable and nonpredictable ... no matter how much hate mail I get.

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