“My investigation into financial crises provoked me to ask a more sweeping question: What is it about money that we can’t master? There’s something about it that makes us act in bizarre and irrational ways.” — Kabir Sehgal Copy Share Image
We are privileged that the dollar is the "currency of last resort" and the most important currency in the world. Global commodities are priced… — Kabir Sehgal Copy Share Image
Persistence. Change doesn't happen overnight. You have to stay with it. Rosa Parks helped start the Civil Rights movement in earnest in 1955. Then… — Kabir Sehgal Copy Share Image
All organisms rely on exchange. They form symbiotic partnerships in order to obtain the energy that they need to survive. Energy is the currency… — Kabir Sehgal Copy Share Image
Gone is the day where you work at a job for thirty years and retire. Millennials jump around and switch careers. I think it's… — Kabir Sehgal Copy Share Image
All decisions originate in the brain. So if we can better understand what's happening in the brain when we make investment decisions, maybe one… — Kabir Sehgal Copy Share Image
Albert Murray's The Omni-Americans is the most valuable non-business book because it discusses how you have to draw upon everyone's creativity. America is a… — Kabir Sehgal Copy Share Image
On a biological level, the brain registers money as something valuable - even a dollar bill which has no intrinsic value, it's just paper. — Kabir Sehgal Copy Share Image
Reputation will become an even more important currency in the future. — Kabir Sehgal Copy Share Image
“A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away. In Star Wars, a currency known as the “Galactic Credit Standard” or “credit” functioned… — Kabir Sehgal Copy Share Image
After Hurricane Katrina, I wanted to go back to New Orleans to help musicians return to the city. But Andrew Young advised me, "If… — Kabir Sehgal Copy Share Image
"Begin with where you are." Everyone is looking to get ahead, but you get ahead by doing well at the things that are immediately… — Kabir Sehgal Copy Share Image
Researchers have compared brain scans of those people who are making money to those high on cocaine and found that them to be almost… — Kabir Sehgal Copy Share Image
Money numbs your senses. People who touched paper money and then placed their hands in hot burning water didn't feel as much pain as… — Kabir Sehgal Copy Share Image
We don't invest in financial literacy in a meaningful way. We should be teaching elementary school children how to balance a checkbook, how to… — Kabir Sehgal Copy Share Image
