Make sure that you are in a situation where the constant mistakes are small and can be used for something.

Those who do not think that employment is systemic slavery are either blind or employed.

A good rule of thumb is as follows: If the numbers come from somebody wearing a tie (Wall Street economist or analyst, industry public relations department, captive think tank academic and so on), you ought to be very skeptical. By design messages from these people are intended to move markets, move merchandise and/or move public policy and are not a comment on the state of the physical universe.

We tend to treat our knowledge as personal property to be protected and defended. It is an ornament that allows us to rise in the pecking order. [...] We take what we know a little too seriously.

Read books are far less valuable than unread ones.

I want them poor and they deserve to be poor. You can't have capitalism without punishment.

I hated school because I liked to daydream and the system tried to stop me from that.