When you analyze happiness, it turns out that the way you spend your time is extremely important.

Clearly, the decision-making that we rely on in society is fallible. It's highly fallible, and we should know that.

Below an income of ... $60,000 a year, people are unhappy, and they get progressively unhappier the poorer they get. Above that, we get an absolutely flat line. ... Money does not buy you experiential happiness, but lack of money certainly buys you misery.

In strategic decisions, I'd be really concerned about overconfidence.

The idea that the future is unpredictable is undermined every day by the ease with which the past is explained.

The experiencing self lives in the moment; it is the one that answers the question, 'Does it hurt?' or 'What were you thinking about just now?' The remembering self is the one that answers questions about the overall evaluation of episodes or periods of one's life, such as a stay in the hospital or the years since one left college.

The brains of humans contain a mechanism that is designed to give priority to bad news.