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.

Most people are sceptical about the wrong things and gullible about the wrong things.

When you write, you don't have the social constraints of having people in front of you, so you talk about abstract matters.

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

The person you are most afraid to contradict is yourself.

Don't aim to be perfect! Aim to be antifragile

Stoicism is about the *domestication* of emotions, not their elimination.