In essence, the optimistic style involves taking credit for successes but little blame for failures.

Hindsight bias makes surprises vanish.

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

Employers who violate rules of fairness are punished by reduced productivity, and merchants who follow unfair pricing policies can expect to lose sales.

We don't see very far in the future, we are very focused on one idea at a time, one problem at a time, and all these are incompatible with rationality as economic theory assumes it.

Money does not buy you happiness, but lack of money certainly buys you misery.

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.