When you look at the books about well-being, you see one word - it's happiness. People do not distinguish.

It's a wonderful thing to be optimistic. It keeps you healthy and it keeps you resilient.

Every night for the next week, set aside ten minutes before you go to sleep. Write down three things that went well today and why they went well...Writing about why the positive events in your life happened may seem awkward at first, but please stick with it for one week. It will get easier. The odds are that you will be less depressed, happier, and addicted to this exercise six months from now.

Economists think about what people ought to do. Psychologists watch what they actually do.

The concept of happiness has to be reorganised.

We can't live in a state of perpetual doubt, so we make up the best story possible and we live as if the story were true.

The illusion of skill is not only an individual aberration; it is deeply ingrained in the culture of the [investment management] industry.