"The risk of a business being hit by a low probability, high impact event is far higher than most boards realize because the number of potential wild cards is so great."

“In European thought in general, as contrasted with American, vigor, life and originality have a kind of easy, professional utterance. American -- on the other hand, is expressed in an eager amateurish way. A European gives a sense of scope, of survey, of consideration. An American is strained, sensational. One is artistic gold; the other is bullion.”

“I do try to incorporate particular rhythmic and generally sonic motifs I discover in music as such, and if one thinks of language in a narrow sense, that, perhaps, suggests a possibility for a rhythmic sensibility that enters poetry from outside of language.”

“The emitters of the spectral series are without exception single atoms, not compounds of atoms.”

“The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line, -- the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in Asia and Africa, in America and the islands of the sea.”

“Long ago, during my apprenticeship in the wine trade, I learned that wine is more than the sum of its parts, and more than an expression of its physical origin. The real significance of wine as the nexus of just about everything became clearer to me when I started writing about it. The more I read, the more I traveled, and the more questions I asked, the further I was pulled into the realms of history and economics, politics, literature, food, community, and all else that affects the way we live. Wine, I found, draws on everything and leads everywhere.”

Source : Gerald Asher (2012). “A Carafe of Red”, p.1, Univ of California Press

“Small changes can produce big results - but the areas of highest leverage are often the least obvious.”

“National injustice is the surest road to national downfall.”

Source : Speech in Plumstead, London, November 30, 1878.

“A good friend of mine once told me that each morning when you wake up, think about winning the day.  Don't worry about a week from now or a month from now - just think about one day at a time.  If you are worried about the mountain in the distance, you might trip over the molehill right in front of you.  Win the day!”