I tend to have a hard time working on pieces long before they're due. That's why I think the fact that I write a column is really good for me - the column has to be done, and there's no getting around it.

Companies often become victims of their own mythologies.

What the investment community does like is short-term measures designed to boost share prices.

On Wall Street, fraudulent schemes tend to thrive during economic booms, and to blow up when times turn tough.

If being the biggest company was a guarantee of success, we'd all be using IBM computers and driving GM cars.

I think people don't understand compound interest because typically no one ever explains it to them and the level of financial literacy in the US is very low.

You'll sometimes hear from people that they actually do a better job of getting their work done when they have a lot of other obligations - in effect, it removes the possibility of procrastinating.