The men on the trading floor may not have been to school, but they have Ph.D.’s in man’s ignorance.

Every form of strength is also a form of weakness.

If you have a patient in a doctor's office who's just been told they have terminal cancer but there's this operation they could perform right now that might save their lives. ... They have a 90 percent chance of surviving the operation — if you tell them that, they respond one way. If you tell them ... that they have a 10 percent chance of being killed by the operation, they are about three times less likely to have the operation.

My characters are actually usually pretty smart and admirable.

Why pay $20 million to Harrison Ford? I dont even understand that. They think they have to do it... If someone puts a price on himself, that suggests he is irreplaceable, then he better find somewhere else to work.

Don't be deceived by life's outcomes. Life's outcomes, while not entirely random, have a huge amount of luck baked into them.

I'd say part of the appeal of Trump is that he's presenting himself as a totally certain, infallible person.