Read books are far less valuable than unread ones. The library should contain as much of what you do not know as your financial means, mortgage rates, and the currently tight real-estate market alow you to put there.

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.

It does not matter how frequently something succeeds if failure is too costly to bear.

You find peace by coming to terms with what you don't know.

Forecasting by bureaucrats tends to be used for anxiety relief rather than for adequate policy making.

The person you are most afraid to contradict is yourself.

Bankers, they're not harmed by their mistakes. They benefit when things go right, and the society pays the price.