What the investment community does like is short-term measures designed to boost share prices.

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.

You are perfectly right in objecting to them [modern art], for this one great fault - that they have not yet had time to become old.

Especially on rainy nights like this, they would congregate under the bridge, all the boys from nowhere, the boys who lived nowhere, who had nowhere else to go.

The reason I started officially learning to cook was because when I first got pregnant, I had to face the sad fact that I didn't even know how to boil an egg.

The moderation of people in prosperity is the effect of a smooth and composed temper, owing to the calm of their good fortune.

I could come up with 50 stories that I am thinking about.

For the primary and secondary school years, we will aid public schools serving low-income families and assist students in both public and private schools.

Straight roads do not make skillful drivers.

Barren, barren and trivial are these words. But not barren the experience.

The only difference between an extraordinary life and an ordinary one is the extraordinary pleasures you find in ordinary things.

I like the way that the history of the tree shapes the tree. There's no distinction between the tree and its history. You can lose yourself in that thought.