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

My nightmare scenario is that the government saves Citibank once again, as well as the other banks, and business resumes as usual. Then, the next time the system breaks, it breaks much, much bigger.

The opposite of fragile is something that gains from disorder.

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.

He who has never sinned is less reliable than he who has only sinned once.

Read books are far less valuable than unread ones. The library should contain as much of what you do not know as your financial means, mortgage rates, and the currently tight real-estate market alow you to put there.

Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.