In part because individual judgement is not accurate enough or consistent enough, cognitive diversity is essential to good decision making.

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.

Be grateful. You have enough and abundant life

The newly developed snarky side of my personality wanted to tell him 'There's no crying in vamp battles.

Every month that we do not have an economic recovery package 500 million Americans lose their jobs

Rolling torture wagons for nature's most dignified creature.

That we ought, once for all, heartily to put our whole trust in GOD, and make a total surrender of ourselves to Him, secure that He would not deceive us.

My mom has always said that if I get a big head, she'll take me out of this business as quickly as I got into it.

It's better to be head of a Lyzard, then the tayle of a Lyon.

Having a manicure pulls a look together. Hands are the first thing people see after your face.

Second base is anything but magic. If it's anything at all, it's speed, sureness with your hands and lots of hard work.

We are better than we think and not yet what we want to be.