Companies often become victims of their own mythologies.

The challenge for capitalism is that the things that breed trust also breed the environment for fraud.

We assume that good-looking people are smarter and more effective than they really are, and that homely people are the reverse.

Wall Street has come a long way from the insider-dominated world that was blown apart by the Great Depression.

Companies, like people, don't much like to change.

Now, modern economies have a very effective mechanism for deciding if salaries are really too high: it's called the free market. That's how most people's salaries are set, after all, including those of major-league baseball players and European soccer players.

Defense contractors are able to reap tremendous profits while rarely confronting the risks for which those profits are supposed to be the reward.