The most successful societies in the future will be those that are able to combine the strengths of both the state and the market.

Our experience tends to confirm a long-held notion that being prepared, on a few occasions in a lifetime, to act promptly in scale, in doing some simple and logical thing, will often dramatically improve the financial results of that lifetime.

I am interested in the way people lie to themselves, the stories they tell themselves to make life bearable.

出自《论语·先进篇第十一》。子路问孔子说：“我大胆的请教您，死是怎么回事呢？”孔子回答说：“还不知道生是怎么一回事，怎么能够知道死亡呢？”