Most people are highly optimistic most of the time.

The experiencing self lives its life continuously. It has moments of experience, one after the other.

An executive might have a very strong intuition that a given product has promise, without considering the probability that a rival is already ahead in developing the same product.

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

If people do not know what is going to make them better off or give them pleasure, then the idea that you can trust people to do what will give them pleasure becomes questionable.

I don't try to be clever at all. The idea that I could see what no one else can is an illusion.

We are prone to overestimate how much we understand about the world and to underestimate the role of chance in events.