When you develop your opinions on the basis of weak evidence, you will have difficulty interpreting subsequent information that contradicts these opinions, even if this new information is obviously more accurate,? said Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder?

“There’s a 70% chance you could lose it all,” said Jeff Bezos to his parents when asking for a $100,000 investment to start Amazon. “I want you to know the risks because I want to be able to come home for Thanksgiving.”

“The French have more fun in one year than the English do in ten,” said John Adams, America’s second president, and one-time ambassador to Paris and London.

"A central bank is best that governs least, but is prepared to govern radically when called upon," said 19th century man of letters, Walter Bagehot, the first editor of The Economist magazine in London.