I don't try to be clever at all. The idea that I could see what no one else can is an illusion.
Daniel KahnemanIn essence, the optimistic style involves taking credit for successes but little blame for failures.
Daniel KahnemanThe amount of success it takes for leaders to become overconfident isn't terribly large.
Daniel KahnemanThe premise of this book is that it is easier to recognize other people's mistakes than your own.
Daniel KahnemanA general limitation of the human mind is its imperfect ability to reconstruct past states of knowledge, or beliefs that have changed. Once you adopt a new view of the world (or any part of it), you immediately lose much of your ability to recall what you used to believe before your mind changed.
Daniel Kahneman