We are far too willing to reject the belief that much of what we see in life is random.

We are often confident even when we are wrong, and an objective observer is more likely to detect our errors than we are.

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.

The most effortful forms of slow thinking are those that require you to think fast.

The illusion that we understand the past fosters overconfidence in our ability to predict the future.

Although professionals are able to extract a considerable amount of wealth from amateurs, few stock pickers, if any, have the skill needed to beat the market consistently, year after year.

Psychologists really aim to be scientists, white-coat stuff, with elaborate statistics, running experiments.