Using, as an excuse, others’ failure of common sense is in itself a failure of common sense. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Fortune punishes the greedy by making him poor and the very greedy by making him rich.

what you learn from the intensity and the focus you had when under the influence of risk stays with you. You may lose the sharpness, but nobody can take away what you’ve learned. This is the principal reason I am now fighting the conventional educational system, made by dweebs for dweebs. Many kids would learn to love mathematics if they had some investment in it, and, more crucially, they would build an instinct to spot its misapplications.

It seems that it is the most unsuccessful people who give the most advice, particularly for writing and financial matters.