« All W C Quotes
·
Steven Levitt's Page
W C Quotes by Steven Levitt
1 W C quote by Steven Levitt
More Quotes by Steven Levitt
Steven Levitt has 27 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
-
Data, I think, is one of the most powerful mechanisms for telling stories. I take a huge pile of data and I…
-
After all, your chances of winning a lottery and of affecting an election are pretty similar. From a financial perspective, playing the…
-
Solving a problem is hard enough; it gets that much harder if you’ve decided beforehand it can’t be done.
-
The key to learning is feedback. It is nearly impossible to learn anything without it.
-
When people don’t pay the true cost of something, they tend to consume it inefficiently.
-
The gulf between the information we proclaim & the information we know to be true is vast. In other words: we say…
-
Scarcity is a captivating book, overflowing with new ideas, fantastic stories, and simple suggestions that just might change the way you live.
-
If you own a gun and have a swimming pool in the yard, the swimming pool is almost 100 times more likely…
-
Purity is a good mask for corruption because it discourages inquiry.
-
No matter how expert you may be, well-designed checklists can improve outcomes.
-
I do think that the standard media is controlled by the conventional wisdom about global warming. We've come to believe - from…
-
Many of life's decisions are hard. What kind of career should you pursue? Does your ailing mother need to be put in…
See all 27 quotes by Steven Levitt »
More W C Quotes
Popular W C quotes from across the collection:
-
The jazz band's chief stimulus, of course, was the rise of the negro 'blues' and their exploitation by the negro song-writer, W.…
— Bix Beiderbecke
-
Unbreakable is a little bit Starship Troopers and a little bit Esmay Suiza, with a dash of Firefly for flavor. W. C.…
— Unknown Author
-
I know of only six genuine comic geniuses in movie history; Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Groucho Marx & Harpo Marx, Peter Sellers,…
— Woody Allen
-
My dad's sense of humor was direct and sometimes surreal - his quick wit is well known amongst our family and friends.…
— Tony Visconti
-
I am sure no other civilization, not even the Romans, has showed such a vast proportion of ignominious and degraded nudity, and…
— D. H. Lawrence
-
W. C. Fields, a lifetime agnostic, was discovered reading a Bible on his deathbed. ''I'm looking for a loop-hole,'' he explained.
— W.C. Fields
-
Here lies W. C. Fields. I would rather be living in Philadelphia.
— W.C. Fields
-
As W.C. Fields once said: a thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for.
— Steven Levitt
-
We’re flimflam artists. But remember, sonny, you can’t con people unless they’re greedy to begin with. W. C. Fields had it right.…
— Sidney Sheldon
See all W C Quotes »
Browse Steven Levitt Quotes by Category