Dan Ariely Quotes

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• Big Data is like teenage sex: everyone talks about it, nobody really knows how to do it, everyone thinks everyone else is doing it, so…
• We are all far less rational in our decision-making than standard economic theory assumes. Our irrational behaviors are neither random nor senseless: they are systematic…
• Ownership is not limited to material things. It can also apply to points of view. Once we take ownership of an idea — whether it’s…
• Giving up on our long-term goals for immediate gratification, my friends, is procrastination.
• If we all make systematic mistakes in our decisions, then why not develop new strategies, tools, and methods to help us make better decisions and…
• That’s a lesson we can all learn: the more we have, the more we want. And the only cure is to break the cycle of…
• We have very strong intuitions about all kinds of things — our own ability, how the economy works, how we should pay school teachers. But…
• The most difficult thing is to recognize that sometimes we too are blinded by our own incentives. Because we don’t see how our conflicts of…
• When it comes to the mental world, when we design things like health care and retirement and stock markets, we somehow forget the idea that…
• There's something about [cyclically] doing something over and over and over that seems to be particularly demotivating.
• The bad news is that ignoring the performance of people is almost as bad as shredding their effort in front of their eyes. … The…
• When we think about labor, we usually think about motivation and payment as the same thing, but the reality is that we should probably add…
• Thinking is difficult and sometimes unpleasant.
• Take a brilliant, creative social scientist, without any respect for conventional wisdom and you get Ellen Langer. She is a fantastic storyteller, and Counterclockwise is…
• People are irrational - and predictably so.
• If you ever go bar hopping, who do you want to take with you? You want a slightly uglier version of yourself. Similar ... but…
• In life we encounter many people who, in some way or another, try to tattoo our faces.
• 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 next.
• In a world where everyone is behaving honestly, any dishonesty constitutes a big infraction. But, in a world where many people are behaving dishonestly, and…
• Honesty is a complex and tricky thing, and we don't want to be honest all the time.

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