Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love.

Muscles without strength, friendship without trust, opinion without risk, change without aesthetics, age without values, food without nourishment, power without fairness, facts without rigor, degrees without erudition, militarism without fortitude, progress without civilization, complication without depth, fluency without content; these are the sins to remember.

What I learned on my own I still remember

Being an entrepreneur is an existential, not just a financial thing.

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

What we need to do is break the financial community's grip on society.

If you sat with a pencil and jotted down all the decisions you've taken in the past week, or, if you could, over your lifetime, you would realize that almost all of them have had asymmetric payoff, with one side carrying a larger consequence than the other. You decide principally based on fragility, not probability. Or to rephrase, You decide principally based on fragility, not so much on True/False.