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

Those who do not think that employment is systemic slavery are either blind or employed.

He who has never sinned is less reliable than he who has only sinned once. And someone who has made plenty of errors-though never the same error more than once-is more reliable than someone who has never made any.

Comfort makes you weaker. We need some variability, some stressors. Not too much, but just enough.

By all means, avoid words—threats, complaints, justification, narratives, reframing, attempts to win arguments, supplications; avoid words!

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

We tend to treat our knowledge as personal property to be protected and defended. It is an ornament that allows us to rise in the pecking order. [...] We take what we know a little too seriously.