You have family-owned businesses that have been around for 500 years. You cannot name a corporation that survives intact for even a few decades.

If you have more than one reason to do something (choose a doctor or veterinarian, hire a gardener or an employee, marry a person, go on a trip), just don’t do it. It does not mean that one reason is better than two, just that by invoking more than one reason you are trying to convince yourself to do something. Obvious decisions (robust to error) require no more than a single reason.

Most people are sceptical about the wrong things and gullible about the wrong things.

I remind myself of Einstein's remark that common sense is nothing but a collection of misconceptions acquired by age 18.

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.

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.

Love without sacrifice is like theft