Character is proportionate to N, the number of consecutive failures without being discouraged, or equivalently, the number of successive rejections without being intimidated.

The curious mind embraces science; the gifted and sensitive, the arts; the practical, business; the leftover becomes an economist

Anything that provides you with very, very stable income, very stable conditions, maybe generally stable, that often, it masks real risks, risks of blow-ups.

We should ban banks from risk-taking because society is going to pay the price.

If you don't feel that you haven't read enough, you haven't read enough.

A country's assets reside in the tinkerers, the hobbyists, and the risk-takers.

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