Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.

The inability to predict outliers implies the inability to predict the course of history

Dress your best on your execution day. Be extremely courteous to your assistant when you lose money. Try not to blame others for your fate, even if they deserve blame. Never exhibit any self-pity. Do not complain.

Switzerland is the perfect place where you have volatility at a municipal level that nothing up top - small units competing with each other.

We tend to treat our knowledge as personal property to be protected and defended. It is an ornament that allows us to rise in the pecking order. [...] We take what we know a little too seriously.

The bonus for bankers fragilizes the system. Someone has the upside at the expense of others.

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