The typical American corporation is a shareholders' republic the same way that China is a peoples' republic.

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.

Fear is never a good counselor and victory over fear is the first spiritual duty of man.

All life is only allegory and the real story is not here...

Mental energy is powerful. Direct its strength towards our positive aspirations rather than empowering unsubstantiated fears.

There was a fine line between madness and intelligence.

Having someone do certain things for you is like getting someone to chew your food for you.It might be easier to swallow but it loses all its flavor...And you want the flavor!

The only thing I can cheer for in Philadelphia is the national anthem.

A man has always wanted to lay me down but he never wanted to pick me up.

I'm wholehearted about whatever I do.

Are you trying to tell all of us we have a bad signal-to-noise ratio?

I will bring you a flower from the floor of the sea to wear in your hair.