Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.

You don't become completely free by just avoiding being a slave; you also need to avoid becoming a master.

People are much less interested in what you are trying to show them than what you are trying to hide.

Half of the people lie with their lips; the other half with their tears

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

If you sat with a pencil and jotted down all the decisions you've taken in the past week, or, if you could, over your lifetime, you would realize that almost all of them have had asymmetric payoff, with one side carrying a larger consequence than the other. You decide principally based on fragility, not probability. Or to rephrase, You decide principally based on fragility, not so much on True/False.

If you don't feel that you haven't read enough, you haven't read enough.