The Internet allows the small guy a global marketplace. But technology is harmful in the sense that we get too much information from it. Because of the web we get 10 times the amount of noise we ever got, which makes harmful fallacies far more likely.

Debt is a mistake between lender and borrower, and both should suffer.

Luck is the grand equalizer.

Success is becoming in middle adulthood what you dreamed to be in late childhood.

A good maxim allows you to have the last word without even starting a conversation.

Economics make homeopath and alternative healers look empirical and scientific.

Never ask anyone for their opinion, forecast, or recommendation. Just ask them what they have—or don’t have—in their portfolio.