The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

KLEPTOCRACY: It is important to note that corruption is NOT necessarily in the government (often composed of transient ministers) but deep in the opaque administrations. Which is why decentralization makes things salient.

The market is like a large movie theater with a small door. And the best way to detect a sucker is to see if his focus is on the size of the theater rather than that of the door.

It is as if the mission of modernity was to squeeze every drop of variability and randomness out of life with the ironic result of making the world a lot more unpredictable, as if the goddesses of chance wanted to have the last word.