(J)ust as we tend to underestimate the role of luck in life in general, we tend to overestimate it in games of chance.

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.

Banking is a very treacherous business because you don't realize it is risky until it is too late. It is like calm waters that deliver huge storms.

Success is about honour, feeling morally calibrated, absence of shame, not what some newspaper defines from an external metric.

Nobody reads the disclosures that roll down your computer screen. You click 'I agree' but you don't know what you're agreeing to.

The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary.