Brands communicate in two directions: they help us tell other people something about ourselves, but they also help us form ideas about who we are.

One of the big lessons from behavioral economics is that we make decisions as a function of the environment that we're in.

Even the most analytical thinkers are predictably irrational; the really smart ones acknowledge and address their irrationalities.

The idea that you will make the right decision every time is very unlikely.

Your immediate environment is comprised of coffee shops, supermarkets, websites, apps and all kinds of things - none of which have an interest in your long-term or short-term financial well-being.

Giving up on our long-term goals for immediate gratification, my friends, is procrastination.

Companies, however unintentionally, choke the motivation out of their employees.

Honesty is a complex and tricky thing, and we don't want to be honest all the time.

The most difficult thing is to recognize that sometimes we too are blinded by our own incentives. Because we don’t see how our conflicts of interest work on us.

Thinking is difficult and sometimes unpleasant.

There's something about [cyclically] doing something over and over and over that seems to be particularly demotivating.

Life truly is what you make it. The purpose and meaning of life is the purpose and meaning that you give it.

It's very expensive to be a professional tennis player with all the travel and the flights and the hotels and everything.

being sixteen in the pants I died full of questions

That which makes us go so far for love is that we never think that we might have need of anything besides that which we love.

Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.

It's unbecoming," she agreed. "A perfect word for my new life. Unbecoming. I who have always been unbecoming am becoming un.

Music is a self-propelling thing. You can not rely on anybody but yourself.

The basic rule of storytelling is 'show, don't tell.

Those of us who have come to years of discretion and more, must often take to retrospect, and seek to appraise the outcome of our lives.

A certain columnist has been banned from all Shubert openings. Now he can wait three days and go to their closings.