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
When you get a checking account, you should have a savings account, and the number for the savings account should be one… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
Imagine you owe on five credit cards, you owe five debts. So which debt should you pay first? And the answer is… — 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
We have very strong intuitions about all kinds of things — our own ability, how the economy works, how we should pay… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
Disasters are usually a good time to re-examine what we've done so far, what mistakes we've made, and what improvements should come… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
I don't think we should go around life and being miserable all the time and feel the pain of paying. It's a… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
What you should do is wait until the end of each month, and then say, "OK, how much money do I have?… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
When we think about labor, we usually think about motivation and payment as the same thing, but the reality is that we… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
With everything you do, in fact, you should train yourself to question your repeated behaviors. — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
In terms of the actual curriculum for management education, my own view is very simple-minded: The world is incredibly complex, it changes… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
Ownership is not limited to material things. It can also apply to points of view. Once we take ownership of an idea… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
We should teach the students, as well as executives, how to conduct experiments, how to examine data, and how to use these… — 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