We tend to use knowledge as therapy.

They will envy you for your success, your wealth, for your intelligence, for your looks, for your status - but rarely for your wisdom.

To succeed in life requires a total inability to do anything that makes you uncomfortable when you look at yourself in the mirror.

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

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.

When an investor focuses on short-term investments, he or she is observing the variability of the portfolio, not the returns - in short, being fooled by randomness.

You are rich if and only if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept.