The number of managers with great track records in a given market depends far more on the number of people who started in the investment business (in place of going to dental school), rather than on their ability to produce profits.

By setting oneself totally free of constraints, free of thoughts, free of this debilitating activity called work, free of efforts, elements hidden in the texture of reality start staring at you; then mysteries that you never thought existed emerge in front of your eyes.

Bankers, they're not harmed by their mistakes. They benefit when things go right, and the society pays the price.

The opposite of fragile is something that gains from disorder.

We should reward people, not ridicule them, for thinking the impossible.

I don't know anyone on Wall Street who goes to work every day thinking of anything but how to increase their bonus.

The fastest way to become rich is to socialize with the poor; the fastest way to become poor is to socialize with the rich.