If you think of people as making decisions actively, every time we think about the cup of coffee, we say, "How much… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
If I gave you now, $10 as a gift, how happy would you be? Would you be happy, is the marginal $10,… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
Kids don't care what party they have, right? They want cake and they want to run around. Nothing else matters. But in… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
Money is a great way to get happiness. Right? Lots of wonderful things you can do with money. The question is, are… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
What kind of people would be able to rationalize better than other people? Better storytellers, right? Creative people, right? Because if you're… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
If you ever go bar hopping, who do you want to take with you? You want a slightly uglier version of yourself.… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
Dishonesty is all about the small acts we can take and then think, 'No, this not real cheating.' So if you think… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
With money we really fool ourselves. We are our biggest enemies with money and there are some things we can do about… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
If you have loans, the first thing you want to do is say, "Okay, look I have a credit card, if I… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
Linking financial element to energy consumption I think has a huge role if you think about a display instrument that could teach… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
Rainy day savings are incredibly important, because from time to time, bad things happen. And if you're not prepared for that, it's… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
Money are very difficult to think about. So, we think about money as the opportunity cost of money. So, we at some… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
Scaling down individually is very hard. Imagine that if you go to a place where everybody is dressed nicely, and you are… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
If you want to spend more money in restaurants, use credit cards more than cash. If you want to spend less, use… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
When it comes to the mental world, when we design things like health care and retirement and stock markets, we somehow forget… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
We can think about how we reduce the pain in paying. So, for example, credit cards are wonderful mechanisms to reduce the… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
Money actually becomes even more difficult than other things because it's very hard to imagine what the benefits are to saving. So,… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
Do you know how much money you would save if you changed your light bulb to compact florescent light bubs? How much… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
We're actually trying to develop an iPhone app, now that the Droid is out, we'll do it for that as well, if… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
Money is very difficult to think about. So, we think about money as the opportunity cost of money. So, we at some… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
Money is a wonderful invention. It lets us save, it lets us specialize, right? I couldn't be a professor if there wasn't… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
If you think of people as making decisions actively, every time we think about the cup of coffee, we say, "How much will I… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
“[..] we human beings are ready and willing to steal something that does not explicitly reference monetary value - that is, something that lacks… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
It is true that from a behavioral economics perspective we are fallible, easily confused, not that smart, and often irrational. We are more like… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
“Contrafreeloading,” a term coined by the animal psychologist Glen Jensen, refers to the finding that many animals prefer to earn food rather than simply… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
One of the big lessons from behavioral economics is that we make decisions as a function of the environment that we're in. — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
Not all debt is bad. From time to time we should get into debt when there's a good reason for that. — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
“This result suggests that cheating is not driven by concerns about standing out. Rather, it shows that our sense of our own morality is… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
“ONE OF THE main differences between standard and behavioral economics involves this concept of “free lunches.” According to the assumptions of standard economics, all… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
Money is all about opportunity cost. Every time you spend on something, that's something you can't spend on something else. — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
The people that lend you money basically give you an answer based on the risk that they are willing to take. But just because… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
“Upton Sinclair once noted, “It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”)” — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
If you get people to feel that they are putting something, that they are creating it and so on, their love for the project… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
