We should teach the students, as well as executives, how to conduct experiments, how to examine data, and how to use these tools to make better decisions.

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.

I miss those days even though I wasn't alive.

I did smoke a joint and I did inhale. The bottom line is that's what it was in the '70s, that's what I did.

For many years I have been a night watchman of the Milky Way galaxy.

Social Security has been effective for 70 years; prior predictions of its demise have been totally overstated.

I'm pretty much of the Shakespearean school. Dialogue is character. How we speak is who we are.

The freedom to do your own thing ends when you have obligations and responsibilities.

Inner life is Divine.

Make your goal to attend to your underlying needs and to aim for a resolution so satisfying that everyone involved has their needs met also.

Spirit, that made those heroes dare To die, and leave their children free, Bid Time and Nature gently spare The shaft we raise to them and thee.

Perfect does not mean perfect actions in a perfect world, bur appropriate actions in an imperfect one.