Missing a train is only painful if you run after it! Likewise, not matching the idea of success others expect from you is only painful if that’s what you are seeking.

The American people will eventually get hurt by this accumulated deficit. That's the problem. We have too much deficit. We have to find a solution.

It does not matter how frequently something succeeds if failure is too costly to bear.

We glorify those who left their names in history books at the expense of those contributors about whom our books are silent. We humans are not just a superficial race - we are a very unfair one.

Being an entrepreneur is an existential, not just a financial thing.

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

Education makes the wise slightly wiser, but it makes the fool vastly more dangerous.