(1) “Risk is what is left over after you have prepared for all risks imaginable.”

(2) “People don't want accuracy, they want certainty.”

(3) “Great storytelling is more important than great ideas”

(4) “People don't remember books, they remember sentences.”

(5) “You can only be optimistic in the long run if you are pessimistic enough to survive in the short run.”

(6) “You waste years by not being able to waste hours. The secret to doing great research is to be a little underemployed.” (7) “Everything has a price, you just need to know it.”

(8) “Size is associated with success, success is associated with hubris, hubris leads to the downfall of success.”

(9) “Often length is the only way to signal effort and thoughtfulness (especially in the case of books)”

(10) “ Plan like a pessimist, dream like an optimist. Save like a pessimist, invest like an optimist.”