It's a familiar truism that at any one moment, financial markets are dominated by either fear or greed. But the healthiest markets are those that are animated by both fear and greed at the same time.

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.

If one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

Comfort is a powerful sedative.

A few years ago, a taxi driver told me about a club & a dog. A waiter taught me a lesson about ladders today. Life is full of class sessions for those who have passion & listen.

I only made two studio movies, that was a long time ago and obviously I removed myself. I think some of that is geographical. I live in New York and I want to work there, it's as simple as that.

I had a wonderful contact, especially with Uncle Bert who was an angel and led the whole group over to my side of a steep ravine I could not cross to get over to them

If risk is the key factor to success and really smart people avoid it, you might not be dumb enough to succeed!

If making money is a slow process, losing it is quickly done.

Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow.

Live to discover, as long as discovery leads to a love that comes from the Creator... writing was the mirror to life.

I'm not a social retard, but I prefer to go unnoticed.