The desire for reinvention seems to arise most often when companies hear the siren call of synergy and start to expand beyond their core businesses.

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.

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Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction

If the world is meaningless, then so are we; if we mean something, we do not mean alone.

Coaches have the worst hours in the world. They go home maybe twice a week. They're sleeping in their office. They're watching film. It's a brutal, brutal job and that's why I respect them so much.

I never really had much problem scoring a fight, you call it the way you see it. The most important thing is concentration you really got to concentrate.

I still believe that the mission of Business 2.0 is very strong, very fundamental, and we're really at the beginning of where they're going to take us.

Focus on the competition to diminish the time dedicated to internal politics.

I'm not small, I'm space-efficient.

What? It's my job as best friend to make sure he's not a serial killer. Or an English major, not sure which one's worse.

The kind of happiness that stays with you is the happiness that springs from inward thoughts and emotions.