Alan Greenspan is unskilled; you don't take the unskilled seriously.

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

An ad hominem attack against an individual, not against an idea, is highly flattering. It indicates that the person does not have anything intelligent to say about your message.

Hard work will get you a professorship or a BMW. You need both work and luck for a Booker, a Nobel or a private jet.

Don't disturb complicated systems that have been around for a very long time. We don't understand their logic. Don't pollute the planet. Leave it the way we found it, regardless of scientific 'evidence'.

The track record of economists in predicting events is monstrously bad. It is beyond simplification; it is like medieval medicine.

Ideas come and go, stories stay.