Downsizing itself is an inevitable part of any creatively destructive economy.

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.

The Revolution won't be televised. It's already available on Amazon in ebook format.

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

It's hard to beat somebody when they don't give up.

It's difficult to seek other people's love. It's deadly. In seeking it you lose what is genuine. This is the prison we create for ourselves as we seek what we already have.

I really don’t care what people think.

Girls are not accustomed to jockeying for status in an obvious way; they are more concerned that they be liked.

You can’t look at someone with your eyes and take their measure. You have to look with the heart.

It's important to feel beautiful; it's political to feel beautiful.

Twenty thousand birds moved away from me as one, like a ground-hugging white cloud, clucking softly.

You never know what people are going to go and see.