Patrimonial capitalism's legacy is that many people see reform as a euphemism for corruption and self-dealing.

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.

All our losses and sufferings will be made up to us in the resurrection.

Being more aware creates responsibility. What does responsibility mean? It means the ability to respond. The more conscious you are in your ability to respond, the more creative you'll be.

I've found when all I'm eating is really fresh, healthy foods, I stop craving pizza and burgers.

Wealth is the smallest thing on earth, the least gift that God has bestowed on mankind.

At thirteen, when I arrived in Hong Kong after leaving China, I made a living by working in a restaurant.

Less than fifteen cents to the province and more than twenty-five cents to Ottawa, this is far from being excessive!

Security will produce danger.

What you do not use yourself, do not give to others. For example, advice.

The stock market has always had its own meter. Sometimes it's ahead of itself, sometimes it's behind itself. A broken watch is right twice a day.

I'll tell you what I was like as a child. I was a good person. I was high-spirited but I was a big reader.