One emphasis of my research has been on the question of how people spend their time. Time is the ultimate finite resource, or course, so the question of how people spend it would seem to be important.

That's one of the real dangers of leader selection in many organizations: leaders are selected for overconfidence.

All of us roughly know what memory is. I mean, memory is sort of the storage of the past. It's the storage of our personal experiences. It's a very big deal.

One thing we have lost, that we had in the past, is a sense of progress, that things are getting better. There is a sense of volatility, but not of progress.

Except for some effects that I attribute mostly to age, my intuitive thinking is just as prone to overconfidence, extreme predictions, and the planning fallacy as it was before I made a study of these issues.

It's nonsense to say money doesn't buy happiness, but people exaggerate the extent to which more money can buy more happiness.

People are really happier with friends than they are with their families or their spouse or their child.