Nothing in life is as important as you think it is when you are thinking about it.

We can be blind to the obvious, and we are also blind to our blindness.

A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth.

Wherever there is judgment, there is noise — and more of it than you think.

Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

-- John D. Rockefeller

Try not to lose money. The way to make money in the stock market is not to be afraid of losing it.

-- Walter Schloss

It's not about being the smartest person in the room. It's about creating the right environment for good decision-making.

-- Guy Spier

Don't lose money. The best way to do that is to have a very good process for making decisions.

-- Stephen A. Schwarzman

Wherever there is judgment, there is noise — and more of it than you think.

-- Daniel Kahneman

I have two kinds of problems, the urgent and the important. The urgent are not important, and the important are never urgent.

-- Dwight D. Eisenhower