When you're in pain, tomorrow doesn't exist - just the pain - and the only thing that you want in the world… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
That’s a lesson we can all learn: the more we have, the more we want. And the only cure is to break… — 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
Honesty is a complex and tricky thing, and we don't want to be honest all the time. — 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
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
We don't really want a huge house, but we want the house to be slightly bigger than our neighbors, and a car… — 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
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
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
Imagine you have six loans, small to huge. People want to close loans and because of that, they try to pay off… — 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
Who would you trust right now? Which bank would you trust? Which investment would you trust? Do you really want to put… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
We all want explanations for why we behave as we do and for the ways the world around us functions. Even when… — 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
One percent of people will always be honest and never steal," the locksmith said. "Another one percent will always be dishonest and… — 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
“[..] 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
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
“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
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
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
“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
“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
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
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
“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
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
If I gave you now, $10 as a gift, how happy would you be? Would you be happy, is the marginal $10, the best… — Dan Ariely Copy Share
Imagine you have six loans, small to huge. People want to close loans and because of that, they try to pay off the small… — Dan Ariely Copy Share
“he started by selling his Porsche Boxster and buying a Toyota Prius in its place.4 “I don’t want to live the life of a… — Dan Ariely Copy Share
