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.

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.

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.

In conditions of uncertainty, humans, like other animals, herd together for protection.

No one knows you better than the one who created you.

Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing.

If God drives a car, He'd drive a 1973 Ford LTD Brougham sedan with a claret-colored vinyl roof, with oxblood leather upholstery and an opera window.

Grasshopper always wrong in argument with chicken.

There are honest journalists like there are honest politicians - they stay bought.

I was called really horrible, profane names very loudly in front of huge crowds of people, and my schoolwork suffered at one point.

I do not purpose to discuss faith in its dogmatic sense today.

Limits exist only in the souls of those who do not dream.

I think that basketball players should get the job done no matter how it looks on the screen.

Political reporters and political professionals rushed to judgment against Romney because we crave clear, unambiguous story lines.