Lebanon Quotes

I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the human is not God in God's terms. My God isn't the God of George Bush.
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.
In the United States, large corporations control some members of Congress. All this does is delay the corporation's funeral at our expense.
Individuals should think about the worst-case scenarios and plan for them. The world will be crazier than you think it will be. Put money away, and then you can live with much more freedom.
Inequalities of wealth lead to a dispersion in wealth for all.
It might be useful to be able to predict war. But tension does not necessarily lead to war, but often to peace and to denouement.
I've been telling anyone willing to listen that banks have a tendency to sit on time bombs while convincing themselves that they are conservative and nonvolatile.
Most people are sceptical about the wrong things and gullible about the wrong things.
Most so-called writers keep writing and writing with the hope, some day, to find something to say.
Nature builds things that are antifragile. In the case of evolution, nature uses disorder to grow stronger. Occasional starvation or going to the gym also makes you stronger, because you subject your body to stressors and gain from them.
Never take advice from anyone in a tie. They'll bankrupt you. Don't ask a general for advice on war, and don't ask a broker for advice on money.
Never think that lack of variability is stability. Don't confuse lack of volatility with stability, ever.
Nobody reads the disclosures that roll down your computer screen. You click 'I agree' but you don't know what you're agreeing to.
Paul Krugman is a danger to society!
People employed in financial institutions are rarely interesting and even more rarely likable.
People have the problem of denial. This is one of the things I learned in Lebanon. Everybody who left Beirut when the war started, including my parents, said, 'Oh, its temporary.' It lasted 17 years! People tend to underestimate the gravity of these situations. That's how they work.
Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness.
Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn't finish college. Too much emphasis is placed on formal education - I told my children not to worry about their grades but to enjoy learning.
Success is about honour, feeling morally calibrated, absence of shame, not what some newspaper defines from an external metric.
The American people will eventually get hurt by this accumulated deficit. That's the problem. We have too much deficit. We have to find a solution.
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