The profit motive, indecorous though it may seem, may represent the best chance the poor have to reap some of globalization's benefits.

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.

Never, never, never, on cross-examination ask a witness a question you don't already know the answer to.

A man who builds his own pedestal had better use strong cement.

I stumbled upon something and someone so magnificent I was truly blind to it.

Get the best people and train them well.

I go to the club just like a normal person. I might go to the studio, but I go everywhere like a normal person would.

Gospel music rhythms are not African in origin, although I know that's what the jazz experts say.

I have to say that my husband and my children are so tough, there really is no space for pretension.

If you're truly psychedelic the difference between living and dying is quite immaterial. No pun intended.

Karate aims to build character, improve human behavior, and cultivate modesty; it does not, however, guarantee it.