« All High Risk Quotes · Daniel Kahneman's Page

High Risk Quotes by Daniel Kahneman

1 High Risk quote by Daniel Kahneman

One of the major biases in risky decision making is optimism. Optimism is a source of high-risk thinking.

More Quotes by Daniel Kahneman

Daniel Kahneman has 158 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Odd as it may seem, I am my remembering self, and the experiencing self, who does my living, is like a stranger…
We are prone to overestimate how much we understand about the world and to underestimate the role of chance in events.
The illusion that we understand the past fosters overconfidence in our ability to predict the future.
The most effortful forms of slow thinking are those that require you to think fast.
However, optimism is highly valued, socially and in the market; people and firms reward the providers of dangerously misleading information more than…
If you care about being thought credible and intelligent, do not use complex language where simpler language will do.
We are often confident even when we are wrong, and an objective observer is more likely to detect our errors than we…
When action is needed, optimism, even of the mildly delusional variety, may be a good thing.
The concept of loss aversion is certainly the most significant contribution of psychology to behavioral economics.
A general limitation of the human mind is its imperfect ability to reconstruct past states of knowledge, or beliefs that have changed.…
It is only a slight exaggeration to say that happiness is the experience of spending time with people you love and who…
People who are cognitively busy are also more likely to make selfish choices, use sexist language, and make superficial judgments in social…

See all 158 quotes by Daniel Kahneman »

More High Risk Quotes

Popular High Risk quotes from across the collection:

Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times… — Erma Bombeck
I have no complaints about losing money I put in high-risk investments. I did some of that when I had real money;… — Elayne Boosler
The assumption being that if high-risk children could be made to 'feel good about themselves,' these epidemics could be mitigated. ... This… — John Rosemond
At its best, the US Open demands straight drives, crisp iron shots, brilliant chipping and putting, and strategic position play. Plus the… — Thomas Boswell
I'm a high-risk taker on the court in the sense of trying to squeeze things in there. — Jason Kidd
To prefer paper to gold is to prefer high risk to lower risk, instability to stability, inflation to steady long term values,… — William E. Rees
During the investigation evidence of the vulnerability of women in the modelling profession was startling and models are at high risk of… — Unknown Author
With the socialization of the health care system through institutions such as Medicaid and Medicare and the regulation of the insurance industry… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe
The job of dictator is now a high-risk job. — Alain Juppe
Man is different from animals in that he speculates, a high-risk activity. — Edward Hoagland
If someone is starving, excessively exercising or using purging behaviors, then we know they are in a high-risk place for turning on… — Craig Johnston
The airline business is fast-paced, high risk, and highly leveraged. It puts a premium on things I like to do. I think… — Robert Crandall

See all High Risk Quotes »

Browse Daniel Kahneman Quotes by Category