individuals are honest only to the extent that suits them (including their desire to please others)

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.

Millennias old lies can be gradually accepted as truth.This is the real ultimate power of historical engineering.

All too often it's easier to be someone else than just being yourself.

May we never let the things we can't have or don't have spoil our enjoyment of the things we do have and can have.

You must learn to love only that which cannot be stolen.

Of what I know, I have told you only a little. Why have I not told you the rest? Because it would not lead you to Nirvana.

Wonderful teachers should never let themselves be drill sergeants for the state.

From the time of Cain until the last believer before Christ's return, we are all fundamentally in the same boat. We suffer the same spiritual afflictions and tendencies.

Obamacare comes to more than two thousand pages of rules, mandates, taxes, fees, and fines that have no place in a free country.

As Christians, we have an obligation and responsibility to abide by the principles of the Bible.

The reason or motivation you have for making money or creating success is vital.