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.

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.

In conditions of uncertainty, humans, like other animals, herd together for protection.

I was twelve. You were girls, and therefore an entirely different species.

Life on the farm is a school of patience you can't hurry the crops or make an ox in two days.

I'm obsessed with the 1920s, everything from the style to the lifestyle. It was a really cool era.

Work is a prayer. And I start off every morning dedicating it to our Creator.

When you choose to give up your time and resources to participate in community work, that's what makes a leader.

We're all kind of weird and twisted and drowning.

We will work our hardest to make sure SS501 is an Asian and Worldwide Star .

One is a socialist because one used to be one, no longer going to demonstrations, attending meetings, sending in one's dues, in short, without paying.

What changed their mind was Jimmy Carter's intervention against the Christian schools, trying to deny them tax-exempt status on the basis of so-called de facto segregation.

There is no act of charity that is not accompanied by justice or that permits us to do more than we reasonably can.