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
You can think about life as a battle between you and a doughnut shop. The doughnut shop wants you to eat another… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
I think we could get people to both be more productive and happier. We're less productive as individuals. We're less productive as… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
Big Data is like teenage sex: everyone talks about it, nobody really knows how to do it, everyone thinks everyone else is… — 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
It is helpful to think of people as having two fundamental motivations: the desire to see ourselves as honest, good people, and… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
For all of us, it's very hard to think about money, and because of that, we need help. In the same way… — 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
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
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
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
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
The companies that provide debt, what do you think their goal is? Is their goal for you to fully understand the cost… — 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
In the U.S., I think there is an ideology of not telling kids what to do. Nobody to tell you who to… — 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
we usually think of ourselves as sitting the driver's seat, with ultimate control over the decisions we made and the direction our… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
In total, by giving people $30 bonus, Intel lost almost 5 percent of productivity. That's a lot. Now, think about it. You… — 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
I don't want to say that the poor are inherently cognitively diminished, but at the end of the day of making difficult,… — 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
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
