Decision Quotes by Daniel Kahneman

One of the major biases in risky decision making is optimism. Optimism is a source of high-risk thinking.

— Daniel Kahneman

All of us would be better investors if we just made fewer decisions.

— Daniel Kahneman

In strategic decisions, I'd be really concerned about overconfidence.

— Daniel Kahneman

Clearly, the decision-making that we rely on in society is fallible. It's highly fallible, and we should know that.

— Daniel Kahneman

The effort invested in 'getting it right' should be commensurate with the importance of the decision.

— Daniel Kahneman

When you are under time pressure for a decision, you need to follow intuition.

— Daniel Kahneman

I think one of the major results of the psychology of decision making is that people's attitudes and feelings about losses and…

— Daniel Kahneman

My interest in well-being evolved from my interest in decision making - from raising the question of whether people know what they…

— Daniel Kahneman

Friends are sometimes a big help when they share your feelings. In the context of decisions, the friends who will serve you…

— Daniel Kahneman

Optimistic people play a disproportionate role in shaping our lives. Their decisions make a difference; they are inventors, entrepreneurs, political and military…

— Daniel Kahneman

Policy makers, like most people, normally feel that they already know all the psychology and all the sociology they are likely to…

— Daniel Kahneman

Spend some effort in figuring out why each decision did or did not pan out. Doing that systematically is key: really try…

— Daniel Kahneman

We think, each of us, that we're much more rational than we are. And we think that we make our decisions because…

— Daniel Kahneman

When people think of the outcomes of their decisions, they think much more short term than that. They think in terms of…

— Daniel Kahneman

We associate leadership with decisiveness. That perception of leadership pushes people to make decisions fairly quickly, lest they be seen as dithering…

— Daniel Kahneman