By all means, avoid words—threats, complaints, justification, narratives, reframing, attempts to win arguments, supplications; avoid words!

When you beat up someone physically, you get excercise and stress relief; when you assault him verbally on the Internet, you just harm yourself.

Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes.

Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love; close enough on the surface but, to the non-sucker, not exactly the same thing.

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.

I don't know anyone on Wall Street who goes to work every day thinking of anything but how to increase their bonus.

If my detractors knew me better they would hate me even more.