Having a strong sense of controlling one’s life is a more dependable predictor of positive feelings of wellbeing than any of the objective conditions of life we have considered.

life isn’t any fun without a sense of enough. Happiness, as it’s said, is just results minus expectations.

The hardest financial skill is getting the goalpost to stop moving.

There is no reason to risk what you have and need for what you don’t have and don’t need.

The challenge for us is that no amount of studying or open-mindedness can genuinely recreate the power of fear and uncertainty.

Therefore, focus less on specific individuals and case studies and more on broad patterns.

Voltaire’s observation that “History never repeats itself; man always does.”

knowing what to do tells you nothing about what happens in your head when you try to do it.

financial success is not a hard science. It’s a soft skill, where how you behave is more important than what you know.