Companies, like people, don't much like to change.

If companies tell us more, insider trading will be worth less.

Paradoxically, the best way for a group to be smart is for each person in it to think and act as independently as possible.

I do think to some extent multitasking is a way of fooling ourselves that we're being exceptionally efficient.

Diversity and independence are important because the best collective decisions are the product of disagreement and contest, not consensus or compromise.

In the business world, bad news is usually good news - for somebody else.

Most of the work on multitasking suggests that it generally makes you less efficient, not more.

It may be that the very qualities that help people get ahead are the ones that make them ill-suited for managing crises. It's hard to prepare for the worst when you think you're the best.

The important thing about groupthink is that it works not so much by censoring dissent as by making dissent seem somehow improbable.

Although oil is a commodity, it's still not a commodity like coffee, which, thank God, we will have with us always. At some point the oil will run out.

If we want our regulators to do better, we have to embrace a simple idea: regulation isn't an obstacle to thriving free markets; it's a vital part of them.

Wisdom is the most important part of happiness.

I think social change work is some of the most extraordinary dreaming that any of us have the possibility of doing.

It was the kind of love you can only feel toward someone you don't actually know.

I've reached a point in life where it's no longer necessary to try to impress. If they like me the way I am, that's good. If they don't, that's too bad.

White people set goals, rappers 'chase paper', and the Chinese are too busy doing both to talk about either one.

I can't sleep. There is a woman stuck between my eyelids. I would tell her to get out if I could. But there is a woman stuck in my throat

Some people spend their days talking about how cool they areothers spend them doing things that make them cool

Success is mine when I work my hardest to become my best, and I alone determine whether I do so.

Those who hope to nurture genuine religiosity should first establish liberty.

I worked for a lot of directors.