The person you are most afraid to contradict is yourself.

When I trade, I don't have an agency problem; I have my neck on the line. When a bank or banker trades, it's not his neck on the line.

Never ask anyone for their opinion, forecast, or recommendation. Just ask them what they have—or don’t have—in their portfolio.

I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the human is not God in God's terms. My God isn't the God of George Bush.

Writing is the art of repeating oneself without anyone noticing.

The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism.

Learn to fail with pride - and do so fast and cleanly. Maximise trial and error - by mastering the error part.