A verbal threat is the most authentic certificate of impotence.

Janet Yellen at the FED is equivalent to having a biology schoolteacher who has never seen blood perform brain surgery.

The rationalist imagines an imbecile-free society; the empiricist and imbecile-proof one, or even better, a rationalist-proof one.

To succeed in life requires a total inability to do anything that makes you uncomfortable when you look at yourself in the mirror.

Life is a tightrope between two errors: generalizing the wrong particular and particularizing the wrong general.

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

We have this culture of financialization. People think they need to make money with their savings rather with their own business. So you end up with dentists who are more traders than dentists. A dentist should drill teeth and use whatever he does in the stock market for entertainment.