Dan Ariely

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

...[D]ivision of labor, in my mind, is one of the dangers of work-based technology. Modern IT infrastructure allows us to break projects…

— Dan Ariely

“Put simply, the link between creativity and dishonesty seems related to the ability to tell ourselves stories about how we are doing…

— Dan Ariely

The experiments show quite clearly that, as you resist more and more temptation, you're actually more and more likely to fail.

— Dan Ariely

“Most blogs have very low readership—perhaps only the blogger’s mother or best friend reads them—but even writing for one person, compared to…

— Dan Ariely

When parents have college savings accounts for their kids, their kids show higher social and cognitive performance.

— Dan Ariely

“our irrationality happens the same way, again and again. Whether we are acting as consumers, businesspeople, or policy makers, understanding how we…

— Dan Ariely

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

“Just as creativity enables us to envision novel solutions to tough problems, it can also enable us to develop original paths around…

— Dan Ariely

“Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose. —Viktor E. Frankl”

— Dan Ariely

Big Data is like teenage sex: everyone talks about it, nobody really knows how to do it, everyone thinks everyone else is…

— Dan Ariely

“labor begets love.”

— Dan Ariely

The problem is that people basically dangle debt in front of us. And the cost for the poor of course is much…

— Dan Ariely

There's something about [cyclically] doing something over and over and over that seems to be particularly demotivating.

— Dan Ariely

Honesty is a complex and tricky thing, and we don't want to be honest all the time.

— Dan Ariely

Money is a great way to get happiness. Right? Lots of wonderful things you can do with money. The question is, are…

— Dan Ariely

“participants to choose the sheet that tempted them to cheat. As a result of their depletion, they suffered a double whammy: they…

— Dan Ariely

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

Why would you take money out of your paycheck at the beginning of the month when you don't know how much money…

— Dan Ariely

“four principles of human endeavor: • The effort that we put into something does not just change the object. It changes us…

— Dan Ariely

“Zero has had a long history. The Babylonians invented the concept of zero; the ancient Greeks debated it in lofty terms (how…

— Dan Ariely

It is helpful to think of people as having two fundamental motivations: the desire to see ourselves as honest, good people, and…

— Dan Ariely

We talk about honesty, but the reality is we have lots of human values, and they are not all compatible. We don't…

— Dan Ariely

If we all make systematic mistakes in our decisions, then why not develop new strategies, tools, and methods to help us make…

— Dan Ariely

“So how can we improve the educational system? We should probably first rethink school curricula, and link them in more obvious ways…

— Dan Ariely