Being short and seeing a promoter take the stock up is very irritating. It's not worth it to have that much irritation in your life.

Your life must focus on the maximization of objectivity.

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

You need to have a passionate interest in why things are happening. That cast of mind, kept over long periods, gradually improves your ability to focus on reality. If you don't have the cast of mind, you're destined for failure even if you have a high I.Q.

How should the best parts of psychology and economics interrelate in an enlightened economist's mind?... I think that these behavioral economics...or economists are probably the ones that are bending them in the correct direction. I don't think it's going to be that hard to bend economics a little to accommodate what's right in psychology.

Being short and seeing a promoter take the stock up is very irritating. It's not worth it to have that much irritation in your life.

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.