If, in some wealthy communities, you run into people who look like cousins, it is more probable that they use the same plastic surgeon. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

A businessperson cares abt his reputation as it facilitates business, not as an end. For people who aren't free, reputation is the end.

The world as a whole has never been richer, and it has never been more heavily in debt, living off borrowed money. The record shows that, for society, the richer we become, the harder it get to live within our means. Abundance is harder for us to handle than scarcity.

As Yogi Berra said, “In theory there is no difference between theory and practice; in practice there is.