You can't fuel real economic growth with indiscriminate credit. You can only fuel it with well-allocated, long-term investment.

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.

Too much fame, money or alcohol can make you stupid.

Life happens, whether you're in it or not, but death doesn't give you a choice.

If you must push yourself beyond your limits, push yourself hard enough for success.

No one feels another's grief, no one understands another's joy. People imagine they can reach one another. In reality they only pass each other by.

Fools carry their daggers in their open mouths.

Literally since I could walk... I was performing.

There is no struggle, rift, fight between those who claim the banner of the tea party and those who are in the Republican Party. We work together.

Those who dare to interpret God's will must never claim Him as an asset for one nation or group rather than another.

Why is it we can never love the people we ought to?

If the mind loves solitude, it has thereby acquired a loftier character, and it becomes still more noble when the taste is indulged in.