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

Individual investors predictably flock to stocks in companies that are in the news.

We can be blind to the obvious, and we are also blind to our blindness.

A 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.

It's very easy for trusted companies to mislead naive customers, and life insurance companies are trusted.

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

People talk of the new economy and of reinventing themselves in the workplace, and in that sense most of us are less secure.