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

This is the essence of intuitive heuristics: when faced with a difficult question, we often answer an easier one instead, usually without noticing the substitution.

If people do not know what is going to make them better off or give them pleasure, then the idea that you can trust people to do what will give them pleasure becomes questionable.

Money does not buy you happiness, but lack of money certainly buys you misery.

Experts don't know exactly where the boundaries of their expertise are.

If there was one ubiquitous recommendation about marriage it was this: "Don't go to bed angry."

Establish a closing ritual. Know when to stop working. Try to end each work day the same way, too. Straighten up your desk. Back up your computer. Make a list of what you need to do tomorrow.