You might think of consumption as a fairly passive activity, but buying new products and services is actually pretty risky, at least if you value your time and money.

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.

I will not be just a tourist in the world of images just watching images passing by which I cannot live in make love to possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.

My interesting diet tips are eat early and don't nosh between meals. I mean, I can pack it away.

At home, we don't listen to our music-we listen to other people's music. It keeps you attached to the show business world.

Good leadership means leading the way, not hectoring other people to do things your way.

It makes no sense to invest in [fossil fuel] companies that undermine our future

Stable growth ensures employment.

I believe that prayer is our powerful contact with the greatest force in the universe.

There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more.

Our challenges make us unique, and how we deal with them makes us unique.

He laughed, and the sound reduced the pain of every sore place on my body to the dullest ache.