that when given the opportunity, many honest people will cheat.

One of the big lessons from behavioral economics is that we make decisions as a function of the environment that we're in.

Even the most analytical thinkers are predictably irrational; the really smart ones acknowledge and address their irrationalities.

The idea that you will make the right decision every time is very unlikely.

Your immediate environment is comprised of coffee shops, supermarkets, websites, apps and all kinds of things - none of which have an interest in your long-term or short-term financial well-being.

Giving up on our long-term goals for immediate gratification, my friends, is procrastination.

Companies, however unintentionally, choke the motivation out of their employees.

Honesty is a complex and tricky thing, and we don't want to be honest all the time.

The most difficult thing is to recognize that sometimes we too are blinded by our own incentives. Because we don’t see how our conflicts of interest work on us.

Thinking is difficult and sometimes unpleasant.

Brands communicate in two directions: they help us tell other people something about ourselves, but they also help us form ideas about who we are.

The employed are punished by having to do what they do not love. The self-employed are punished by the opposite.

America’s education system has become less a ladder of opportunity than a structure to transmit inequity from one generation to the next.

Don't associate me with comedy. And please don't say actress. I would never call myself any of those things. I hate it when people call me that.

There are some weaknesses that are peculiar and distinctive to generous characters, as freckles are to a fair skin.

Women don't like violence, But when their husbands desert them, that is different.

Failures of perspective in decision-making can be due to aspects of the social utility paradox, but more often result from simple mistakes caused by inadequate thought.

The function of the West is to turn bodies and minds into products. It cannot understand that the rest of the world holds this to be an obscenity, a corruption of our nirvanic nature.

The truth is that cowardice itself is violence of a subtle type and therefore dangerous and far more difficult to eradicate than the habit of physical violence.

I wonder how many eggs are in the golden goose?

I like simple writing. I'd rather read Hemingway than Burroughs.