Normative Economics is like religion without the aesthetics.
We ingest probiotics because we don’t eat enough “dirt” anymore.
We are social animals; hell is other people.
In the complex world, the notion of “cause” itself is suspect; it is either nearly impossible to detect or not really defined – another reason to ignore newspapers, with their constant supply of causes for things.
At the end, what matters is the strength of the string – not the wealth and power of the dining party.
You stand above the rat race and the pecking order, not outside of it, if you do so by choice.
Doctors most commonly get mixed up between absence of evidence and evidence of abense.
Prediction, not narration, is the real test of our understanding of the world.
Someone bemoaned that there were so few women in economics. But there are also very few men in economics.
A Stoic is someone who transforms fear into prudence, pain into transformation, mistakes into initiation, and desire into undertaking.
Being an entrepreneur is an existential, not just a financial thing.
The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary.
Karl Marx, a visionary, figured out that you can control a slave much better by convincing him he is an employee.
To succeed in life requires a total inability to do anything that makes you uncomfortable when you look at yourself in the mirror.
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.
Missing a train is only painful if you run after it! Likewise, not matching the idea of success others expect from you is only painful if that’s what you are seeking.
The imagination of the genius vastly surpasses his intellect; the intellect of the academic vastly surpasses his imagination.
Your reputation is harmed the most by what you say to defend it.
It is much harder to become independent if you are wealthy than to become wealthy if you are independent.
Most people are sceptical about the wrong things and gullible about the wrong things.