The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary.

Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn't finish college. Too much emphasis is placed on formal education - I told my children not to worry about their grades but to enjoy learning.

Private equity has absolutely no reason to exist. The private equity holder has all the upside and the banks all the downside.

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

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

Economics make homeopath and alternative healers look empirical and scientific.

I want them poor and they deserve to be poor. You can't have capitalism without punishment.