If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry.

Never take advice from someone wearing a tie.

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.

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

The fragile wants tranquility, the antifragile grows from disorder, and the robust doesn't care too much.

The classical man's worst fear was inglorious death; the modern man's worst fear is just death

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