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… - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Read books are far less valuable than unread ones.

I suppose that the main benefit of being rich (over just being independent) is to be able to despise rich people (a good concentration of whom you find in glitzy ski resorts) without any sour grapes. It is even sweeter when these farts don't know that you are richer than they are.

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

What they call "risk" I call opportunity; but what they call "low risk" opportunity I call sucker problem.