Honesty is a complex and tricky thing, and we don't want to be honest all the time.

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.

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.

There's something about [cyclically] doing something over and over and over that seems to be particularly demotivating.

Few if any seemed to have grasped the Principle of Reality

Love is a hidden treasure. You never know you have it until someone special reveals it.

There is a better future, with a greater purpose. One can find it, only if he or she searches for it.

Shane met him owing to the storybooks she studied to discover what attributes made one princessly—this wasn't technically a word, but she felt there should be equity in adjectives if not in life.

Rest is valuable only so far as it is a contrast. Pursued as an end, it becomes a most pitiable condition.

I've always said that Adele has turned so many people on to British singers - whether female singers or just like music from this country in general.

When you're very young, images that you upload into your very young mind tend to stay with you.

What is a Christian? The richest answer I know is that a Christian is one who has God as Father.

I guess I will probably produce a little bit more. For me it's a career, you create as you go along and you can't worry about always being on top.

Bullingdon would never go co-ed. I'm not going to give anything away, but there are a couple of girls involved in our story and it doesn't end well for anyone.