The evidence is unequivocal, there's a great deal more luck than skill in people getting very rich.

If you care about being thought credible and intelligent, do not use complex language where simpler language will do.

I have always believed that scientific research is another domain where a form of optimism is essential to success: I have yet to meet a successful scientist who lacks the ability to exaggerate the importance of what he or she is doing, and I believe that someone who lacks a delusional sense of significance will wilt in the face of repeated experiences of multiple small failures and rare successes, the fate of most researchers.

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

True intuitive expertise is learned from prolonged experience with good feedback on mistakes.

Laziness is built deep into our nature.

People are really happier with friends than they are with their families or their spouse or their child.