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.

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

Although professionals are able to extract a considerable amount of wealth from amateurs, few stock pickers, if any, have the skill needed to beat the market consistently, year after year.

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

Through some combination of culture and biology, our minds are intuitively receptive to religion.

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.

One of the problems with expertise is that people have it in some domains and not in others.