People are much less interested in what you are trying to show them than what you are trying to hide. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The major problem with inference... is that those whose profession it is to derive conclusions from data often fall into the trap faster and more confidently... The more data we have, the more likely we are to drown in it. For common wisdom... is to base... decision making on the following principle: It is very unlikely for someone to perform... well in a consistent fashion without doing something right. ...[I]f someone performed better... in the past then there is a great[er] chance of performing better than the crowd in the future... But... [a] small knowledge of probability can lead to worse results than no knowledge at all.

The difference between banks and the Mafia: banks have better legal-regulatory expertise, but the Mafia understands public opinion.

Nietzsche's Master-Slave morality in modern terms: Reputation is for slaves. Honor, Courage, & Integrity is for the Self-Owned.