It's all about the blanket. Blanket, pillow, and red wine. You should always be asleep on a plane.
News media stimulate bubbles, since stories about them boost their audience.
Economists who adhere to rational-expectations models of the world will never admit it, but a lot of what happens in markets is driven by pure stupidity - or, rather, inattention, misinformation about fundamentals, and an exaggerated focus on currently circulating stories.
In the longer run and for wide-reaching issues, more creative solutions tend to come from imaginative interdisciplinary collaboration.
It amazes me how people are often more willing to act based on little or no data than to use data that is a challenge to assemble.
The ability to focus attention on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence.
Some of the best theorizing comes after collecting data because then you become aware of another reality.
It takes hundreds of good golf shots to gain confidence, but only one bad one to lose it.
Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their peers, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world that yields most painfully to change.
Bees blew like cake-crumbs through the golden air, white butterflies like sugared wafers, and when it wasn't raining a diamond dust took over which veiled and yet magnified all things
Okay, first rule of this carpool. No breaking wind in my car. The only gas that Bernie Mac want to be smelling is unleaded.