A good maxim allows you to have the last word without even starting a conversation.

Some suggestions for you :

When I trade, I don't have an agency problem; I have my neck on the line. When a bank or banker trades, it's not his neck on the line.

What we need to do is break the financial community's grip on society.

Paul Krugman is a danger to society!

We are victims of the post-Enlightenment view that the world functions like a sophisticated machine, to be understood like a textbook engineering problem and run by wonks. In other words, like a home appliance, not like the human body.

In social policy, when we provide a safety net, it should be designed to help people take more entrepreneurial risks, not to turn them into dependents. This doesn't mean that we should be callous to the underprivileged.

You know, children philosophize more than adults - and they are critical of adults.

Deficits are like putting dynamite in the hands of children. They can get out of control very quickly.

Inequalities of wealth lead to a dispersion in wealth for all.

When you write, you don't have the social constraints of having people in front of you, so you talk about abstract matters.

I select a very small number of things to be sceptical about, such as markets, and on these I am hypersceptic. But I want to be fooled by randomness in art. I want the ceremonial of religion; we are made for it.

What fools call wasting time is most often the best investment.

If you take risks and face your fate with dignity, there is nothing you can do that makes you small; if you don't take risks, there is nothing you can do that makes you grand, nothing.

We humans lack imagination, to the point of not even knowing what tomorrow's important things will look like.

Economics make homeopath and alternative healers look empirical and scientific.