They will envy you for your success, your wealth, for your intelligence, for your looks, for your status - but rarely for your wisdom.

There are secrets to our world that only practice can reveal, and no opinion or analysis will ever capture in full.

Never take advice from anyone in a tie. They'll bankrupt you. Don't ask a general for advice on war, and don't ask a broker for advice on money.

Don't aim to be perfect! Aim to be antifragile

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

You are rich if and only if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept.

Failure saves lives. In the airline industry, every time a plane crashes the probability of the next crash is lowered by that.