You want failures to be small and informational. Silicon Valley does very well. It knows how to use failure as a tool for improvement.

true humility is when you can surprise yourself more than others; the rest is either shyness or good marketing

Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love; close enough on the surface but, to the non-sucker, not exactly the same thing.

People focus on role models; it is more effective to find antimodels - people you don't want to resemble when you grow up

Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness.

You have family-owned businesses that have been around for 500 years. You cannot name a corporation that survives intact for even a few decades.

Modernity has replaced ethics with legalese, and the law can be gamed with a good lawyer.