I'm a private intellectual, not a public one.

In economic life and history more generally, just about everything of consequence comes from black swans; ordinary events have paltry effects in the long term.

Don't aim to be perfect! Aim to be antifragile

Never trust a journalist unless she's your mother.

Suckers try to win arguments, nonsuckers try to win.

Deficits are like putting dynamite in the hands of children. They can get out of control very quickly.

You exist if and only if you are free to do things without a visible objective, with no justification and, above all, outside the dictatorship of someone else's narrative.