Wear your best for your execution and stand dignified. Your last recourse against randomness is how you act - if you can't control outcomes, you can control the elegance of your behaviour. You will always have the last word.

In economic life and history more generally, just about everything of consequence comes from black swans; ordinary events have paltry effects in the long term.

In politics we face the choice between warmongering, nation-state loving, big-business agents on one hand; and risk-blind, top-down, epistemic arrogant big servants of large employers on the other. But we have a choice.

The grandchildren should not bear the debts of the grandparents.

My biggest problem with modernity may lie in the growing separation of the ethical and the legal

You have family-owned businesses that have been around for 500 years. You cannot name a corporation that survives intact for even a few decades.

To be completely cured of newspapers, spend a year reading the previous week's newspapers.