I lift heavy weights and sprint, but I am so bad at it that I develop severe injuries.

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

You need a story to displace a story.

Failure saves lives. In the airline industry, every time a plane crashes the probability of the next crash is lowered by that. The Titanic saved lives because we're building bigger and bigger ships. So these people died, but we have effectively improved the safety of the system, and nothing failed in vain.

It is much harder to become independent if you are wealthy than to become wealthy if you are independent.

A mistake is not something to be determined after the fact, but in the light of the information until that point.

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