Situations can have a more powerful influence over our behaviour than most people appreciate, and few people recognize.

Good people can be induced, seduced, and initiated into behaving in evil ways. They can also be led to act in irrational, stupid, self-destructive, antisocial, and mindless ways when they are immersed in 'total situations' that impact human nature.

Heroes are ordinary people whose social actions are extraordinary. They act when others are passive. They give up their egocentrism for their socio-centrism.

The line between good and evil is permeable and almost anyone can be induced to cross it when pressured by situational forces.

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

-- John D. Rockefeller

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

Losses loom larger than gains.

-- Daniel Kahneman

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

-- Daniel Kahneman

I will not aspire to nor accept the position of President of the Council of State and Commander in Chief.

-- Fidel Castro