If being the biggest company was a guarantee of success, we'd all be using IBM computers and driving GM cars.

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.

Most people in this world are a continuity, very few become an opportunity and the rarest of them all, evolve to be a possibility.

I don't think there are any true heroes. Just people who ignore their survival instincts long enough to do something incredibly foolhardy.

We want order and security, and we want liberty. And we want not only liberty but equality as well.

Sometimes, when my wife and I were going out to dinner, I would take my laptop with me and work in the car, so as to take advantage of the half hour going and coming.

The Washington Post said that 50% of the contributors of the Republican Party were Jewish and 70% of the Democratic Party. That's 2% and they control America.

The world is poisoned with erroneous theories, and needs to be taught sane doctrines, but it is difficult to straighten what has become crooked.

But what is opportunity to the man who can't use it?

I saw a sunset in Queretaro that seemed to reflect the color of a rose in Bengal.

There is no perception among the American people, nor their elected representatives, that there is a serious problem that needs fixing.

Perhaps fishing is, for me, only an excuse to be near rivers.