If you skillfully follow the multidisciplinary path, you will never wish to come back. It would be like cutting off your hands.

It's not a competency if you don't know the edge of it.

I think the main figure that matters to all of us, including people in the media, is: How does GDP per capita grow? And those figures have been very good. There is a huge flux both up and down, so it isn't like we're all static in status. What's important is that pie grows.

Assume life will be really tough, and then ask if you can handle it. If the answer is yes, you've won.

Wells Fargo behaves better than the average big bank. But nobody's perfect.

I think it is undeniably true that the human brain must work in models. The trick is to have your brain work better than the other person's brain because it understands the most fundamental models- ones that will do most work per unit.

A business model that relies on trickery is doomed to fail.