Organizations may be better able to tame optimism than individuals are.

When you look at the books about well-being, you see one word - it's happiness. People do not distinguish.

If people are failing, they look inept. If people are succeeding, they look strong and good and competent. That's the 'halo effect.' Your first impression of a thing sets up your subsequent beliefs. If the company looks inept to you, you may assume everything else they do is inept.

I'm not a great believer in self-help.

People should be conscious of the large contribution made by anything that gets people together easily in the reduction of loneliness and emotional well-being.

Most of the moments of our life - and I calculated, you know, the psychological present is said to be about three seconds long; that means that, you know, in a life there are about 600 million of them; in a month, there are about 600,000 - most of them don't leave a trace.

The concept of loss aversion is certainly the most significant contribution of psychology to behavioral economics.