The people who need to overcome temptation to the highest degree have the hardest time doing it.

One of the big lessons from behavioral economics is that we make decisions as a function of the environment that we're in.

Even the most analytical thinkers are predictably irrational; the really smart ones acknowledge and address their irrationalities.

The idea that you will make the right decision every time is very unlikely.

Your immediate environment is comprised of coffee shops, supermarkets, websites, apps and all kinds of things - none of which have an interest in your long-term or short-term financial well-being.

Giving up on our long-term goals for immediate gratification, my friends, is procrastination.

Companies, however unintentionally, choke the motivation out of their employees.

Honesty is a complex and tricky thing, and we don't want to be honest all the time.

The most difficult thing is to recognize that sometimes we too are blinded by our own incentives. Because we don’t see how our conflicts of interest work on us.

Thinking is difficult and sometimes unpleasant.

Brands communicate in two directions: they help us tell other people something about ourselves, but they also help us form ideas about who we are.

To my mother, I was everything. To my father, nothing at all. To my grandmother, I was a daily reminder of loves long lost.

The average comedian is kind of an observer looking at everyday things that everyone could relate to and then trying to find the exaggeration in those things.

I'm most connected to myself when I'm alone in a room, moving my hand across a page. That's when I feel most like me.

All our, let's say, incomes are really very well, transparent to those organs who need these information and who are in charge of combating corruption in our country.

Success is made of 99% failure.

Things aren't good or bad in and of themselves. It's what we do with them that makes them so.

My dad had emphysema and both of my parents had chronic bronchitis and ended up with cancers - all smoking related.

The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never see the fruit.

Getting a divorce is nearly always as cheerful and useful an occupation as breaking valuable china.

It’s in the very trickery that it pleases me. But show me how the trick is done, and I have lost my interest therein.