Economics make homeopath and alternative healers look empirical and scientific.

Aesthetics, ethics, and many good things in humans are contagious.

Never take advice from someone wearing a tie.

Wear your best for your execution and stand dignified. Your last recourse against randomness is how you act - if you can't control outcomes, you can control the elegance of your behaviour. You will always have the last word.

This is the tragedy of modernity: as with neurotically overprotective parents, those trying to help are often hurting us the most.

It is my great hope someday, to see science and decision makers rediscover what the ancients have always known. Namely that our highest currency is respect.

Private equity has absolutely no reason to exist. The private equity holder has all the upside and the banks all the downside.