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.

Banks are run by executives, and executives protect themselves, and that does not always mean that banks are going to behave rationally.

It's nonsense to say money doesn't buy happiness, but people exaggerate the extent to which more money can buy more happiness.

We are very influenced by completely automatic things that we have no control over, and we don't know we're doing it.

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

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

It's not a case of: 'Read this book and then you'll think differently. I've written this book, and I don't think differently.