If people do not know what is going to make them better off or give them pleasure, then the idea that you… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
The brain scientists are the wave of the future in the financial world. If you seek to maximize understanding, whether you're in… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
... sometimes when you are asked a question that is difficult, the mind doesn't stay silent if it doesn't have the answer.… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
If there was one ubiquitous recommendation about marriage it was this: "Don't go to bed angry." — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
If people can construct a simple and coherent story, they will feel confident regardless of how well grounded it is in reality. — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
We can't live in a state of perpetual doubt, so we make up the best story possible and we live as if… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
If you can't take the time for a vacation right now, or even a night out with friends, put something on the… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Economists think about what people ought to do. Psychologists watch what they actually do. — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“People who are poor think like traders, but the dynamics are quite different. Unlike traders, the poor are not indifferent to the differences between… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“Mood evidently affects the operation of System 1: when we are uncomfortable and unhappy, we lose touch with our intuition.” — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
The confidence that individuals have in their beliefs depends mostly on the quality of the story they can tell about what they see, even… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“So this is my aim for watercooler conversations: improve the ability to identify and understand errors of judgment and choice, in others and eventually… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“For example, I recently came to doubt my long-held impression that adultery is more common among politicians than among physicians or lawyers.” — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Survival prospects are poor for an animal that is not suspicious of novelty. — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“the idea of money primes individualism: a reluctance to be involved with others, to depend on others, or to accept demands from others.” — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Most of the moments of our life - and I calculated, you know, the psychological present is said to be about three seconds long;… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“knowing little makes it easier to fit everything you know into a coherent pattern.” — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Experts don't know exactly where the boundaries of their expertise are. — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
