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

You don't become completely free by just avoiding being a slave; you also need to avoid becoming a master.

What I learned on my own I still remember

They will envy you for your success, your wealth, for your intelligence, for your looks, for your status - but rarely for your wisdom.

Failure saves lives. In the airline industry, every time a plane crashes the probability of the next crash is lowered by that. The Titanic saved lives because we're building bigger and bigger ships. So these people died, but we have effectively improved the safety of the system, and nothing failed in vain.

Things always become obvious after the fact

Never trust a journalist unless she's your mother.