"Start by being warm, pleasant, & generous w/every person you meet; but if someone tries to exercise power over you, exercise power over him; &… - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Start by being nice to every person you meet. But if someone tries to exercise power over you, exercise power over him.

One useful trick, I discovered, is to avoid listening to the question of the interviewer, and answer with whatever I have been thinking about recently. Remarkably, neither the interviewers nor the public notices the absence of correlation between question and answer.

To become a successful philosopher king, it is much better to start as a king than as a philosopher.

Lucky fools do not bear the slightest suspicion that they may be lucky fools - by definition, they do not know that they belong to such a category.