I think we could get people to both be more productive and happier. We're less productive as individuals. We're less productive as companies, and we're more miserable.

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.

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.

the deepest subjective experiences are also the most universal, because through them one reaches the universal source of life.

Watching movies was like going to school for me. It still is. You're always learning. Even if it's bad, you're learning what not to do.

Man is a living lie--a bitter jest Upon himself--a conscious grain of sand Lost in a desert of unconsciousness.

It's a long time until the next election, but it starts now. And if you truly want to see things change in the direction that our country is headed, you have to stay involved. You cannot quit now.

I need to have the ball at my feet. That's when I know anything is possible.

We're not to be surprised at all what we see happening in every part of the world. It's a change of the return of things.

Most sermons sound to me like commercials - but I can't make out whether God is the Sponsor or the Product.

Love ruined people's lives, the way our parents said drugs could.

It sounds boring, but anything is easy to start-starting a novel, starting a business ... it's keeping the thing going that is difficult.

He that upon a true principle lives, without any disquiet of thought, may be said to be happy.