We have associations to things. We have, you know, we have associations to tables and to - and to dogs and to cats and to Harvard professors, and that's the way the mind works. It's an association machine.

Nothing in life is quite as important as you think it is while you're thinking about it.

The amount of success it takes for leaders to become overconfident isn't terribly large.

When people think of the outcomes of their decisions, they think much more short term than that. They think in terms of gains and losses.

The idea that the future is unpredictable is undermined every day by the ease with which the past is explained.

Establish a closing ritual. Know when to stop working. Try to end each work day the same way, too. Straighten up your desk. Back up your computer. Make a list of what you need to do tomorrow.

It was always assumed I would be a professor. I grew up thinking it.