There needs to be a certain structure to a situation, a certain predictability that allows you to have a basis for the intuition.

Rigor is not a substitute for imagination.

You need to take your gut feeling as an important data point, but then you have to consciously and deliberately evaluate it, to see if it makes sense in this context.

I worry about leaders in complex situations who don't have enough experience, who are just going with their intuition and not monitoring it, not thinking about it.

People sometimes are so confident in their flawed beliefs that they get stuck - fixated - and as a result are blinded to insights that are right in front of them.

By the time executives get to high levels, they are good at making others feel confident in their judgment, even if there's no strong basis for the judgment.

Slow adaptation is driven by forces such as evolution. Fast adaptation is driven by forces such as insight.

You need strategies that help rule things out. That's the opposite of saying, "This is what my gut is telling me; let me gather information to confirm it."

If a situation is very, very turbulent, it has low validity, and there's no basis for intuition.

Many business intuitions and expertise are going to be valuable; they are telling you something useful, and you want to take advantage of them.

You shouldn't trust the judgments of stock brokers picking individual stocks.

Rejection is no badge of honour.

My girlfriend is upset about her new haircut. I don't understand why she's crying. I'm the one who has to get a new girlfriend.

I felt early on I wasn't going to be a respectable citizen.

Pray for healthy loving friendships, and you will have them.

Once again, we shall have to operate not only outside the box, but outside the room containing the box.

We don't have any splits here. The players country is Liverpool Football Club and their language is football.

Washington has never seen anything like President Donald Trump.

When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser.

I'm flying to China and Japan - if you think Beckham is a big name, you should see me there.

I don’t think there’s enough of her left.