Menschen, die keinen MBA anstreben, sind ganz anders gestrickt als Menschen, die einen MBA anstreben. Der spätere Einkommensunterschied hat tausend andere Gründe als das MBA-Diplom.

Viele höchst erfolgreiche Menschen haben an der Harvard Universität studiert. Heißt das, dass Harvard eine gute Schule ist? Das wissen wir nicht. Vielleicht ist die Schule miserabel, aber sie rekrutiert die gescheitesten Menschen der ganzen Welt.

Wenn Millionen Menschen eine Dummheit behaupten, wird sie deswegen nicht zur Wahrheit.

Die Sunk Cost Fallacy schnappt dann zu, wenn wir schon besonders viel Zeit, Geld, Energie, Liebe etc. investiert haben. Das investierte Geld wird dann zur Begründung weiterzumachen, selbst wenn es objektiv betrachtet keinen Sinn macht.

Rational entscheiden bedeutet, dass Sie die aufgelaufenen Kosten ignorieren. Egal, was sie bereits investiert haben, es zählt einzig das Jetzt und Ihre Entscheidung der Zukunft.

Tatsachen hören nicht auf zu existieren, nur weil sie ignoriert werden.

Wenn Sie jemanden überzeugen wollen, argumentieren Sie nicht mit einem möglichen Gewinn, sondern mit dem Vermeiden eines möglichen Verlustes.

The only concept or experience or core belief that I can attribute my other-ness to is that I just started out a weirdo and I stayed a weirdo. And it took me a long time to embrace my outsidership and see it as a strength rather than a weakness.

I just don't believe you're capable of being an actor unless you have a desire to experience your emotions in a public way.

Poetry at its best can do you a lot of harm.

Historically, there has been a gap between single-purpose racecars and street-legal models - commonly called supercars - that emulate the real racers on the road.

The fairest order in the world is a heap of random sweepings.

My mom is a lifelong smile in my heart her voice a comfort to my soul her hugs my ladder to the stars.

For Christians, who believe they are created in the image of God, it is the Godhead, diversity in unity and the three-in-oneness of God, which we and all creation reflect.

I'm someone, the same as my girlfriends, when they say what do you think about this, I don't always say they look fabulous. I say what I think.

A nation will rise no higher than the strength of its homes.

If I'm not a jazz player all the time, I've at least been cued in to what I do by jazz.

Four years in the White House and two presidential campaigns is an awful long time. In politics, every year in the White House is like dog years, six years off your life.

We would sift through every inch of what it was that worked, or if it didn't, and wonder what was effective in it, in terms of paint, the subject matter, the size, the drawing.

The biggest thing is no matter what level I've played at, there is something I can bring to them.

A tale is born from an image, and the image extends and creates a network of meanings that are always equivocal.

I'll read a book every now and then, but unlike most of my friends I don't always have one on the go.

Don't get me wrong: I would not say no to an Oscar!

We all wake up, and I'm sure at some point during the day we all have very similar thoughts regardless of our circumstances and where we are in the world.

My father has been my role model. And I always looked up to him - be it his management philosophy or his approach towards life.

Rejoice with your family in the beautiful land of life

I might be difficult today. Not because I choose to. But my goodness was taken for granted.

For almost a year, I sporadically made these rather lame video blogs in my dorm. These video blogs were reflective of most video blogs during that time in that they had no real structure and were kind of just all over the place.

Twitter is a form of free speech, and I'm all for that. But if Cee Lo Green, a maverick of sorts, can't get on Twitter and say something outlandish or outrageous, then what is the whole point of Twitter at all?

The perception of beauty is a moral test.

Slavery didn't break up the black families as much as liberal welfare rules.