Dressing for success is a cargo cult.
Jul 292019
Getting
You never find people endeavoring to convince you that you may live very happily upon a plentiful fortune.
–Johnson
Jul 242019
To learn the status of an identity, count how many people fake it.
May 302019
Late capitalism is a myth: late democracy is real.
Mar 272019
It is expensive to be poor, and wildly expensive to be stupid.
Mar 112019
Rich societies produce leisure sufficient for folly, and democratic societies make this everybody’s problem.
Feb 212019
The market may not be smarter than everyone — just everyone I know.
Jan 022019
Consumer capitalism isn’t soulless, quite the contrary: it provides consumers with the option of outsourcing their souls.
Dec 252018
Anyone who has not invested in his own recommendations has no skin in the game; and anyone who has is talking his book.
Dec 192018
Capitalism is a daily exercise in getting what you want without knowing what you want.
Dec 042018
It’s good luck to attribute one’s success to good luck.