Wittgenstein's ruler: Unless you have confidence in the ruler's reliability, if you use a ruler to measure a table you may also be using the table to measure the ruler.

Stoicism is about the *domestication* of emotions, not their elimination.

You will be civilized on the day you can spend a long period doing nothing, learning nothing, and improving nothing, without feeling the slightest amount of guilt.

Private equity has absolutely no reason to exist. The private equity holder has all the upside and the banks all the downside.

It might be useful to be able to predict war. But tension does not necessarily lead to war, but often to peace and to denouement.

If you see fraud and do not say fraud, you are a fraud.

I'm a capitalist but one who is smallist and localist, and who favours businesses where owners are still in charge.