Ideas percolate. Through natural selection, the best ones survive.

Financial crises are an unfortunate but necessary consequence of modern capitalism.

Maybe we should teach schoolchildren probability theory and investment risk management.

Great investors need to have the right combination of intuition, business sense and investment talent.

While neurological studies have tried to identify components responsible for fear and greed, the impact on finance is less clear.

Many of us like to think of financial economics as a science, but complex events like the financial crisis suggest that this conceit may be more wishful thinking than reality.

The risks facing hedge funds are non-linear and more complex than those facing traditional asset classessuch risks are currently not widely appreciated or well-understood

My mother died of lung cancer last year. I felt helpless. As an economist, I thought, What can I do?

Labor is getting more expensive and technology is getting cheaper.

be it peace or happinesslet it enfold you

The artist lives to have stories to tell and to learn to tell them well.

There are two kinds of marriages, Benny — where the husband quotes the wife, or where the wife quotes the husband.

Who could be luckier than to be paid fairly well, which to be honest MPs are, for pursuing their hobby.? That's what politics is.

Millions of Americans are struggling to pay their mortgages. They have a right to know whether members of Congress receive sweetheart deals in order to pay for theirs.

Remember that the reader's attention is yours for only a single instant. They will not use up their valuable time trying to figure out what you mean.

The cockroach and the bird were both here long before we were. Both could.

This sort of thing has got to be stopped. Bad philosophers are like slum landlords. It's my job to put them out of business.

All media owners want to attract advertising revenue. Google is no different.

If there is anything you can do, it may just be to smile for them. Because when you smile, the world seems just a little kinder. For you to just be yourself is a very important thing, I think.