Upton Sinclair Quote by Dan Ariely

“Upton Sinclair once said, ‘It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”

— Yanis Varoufakis

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.’ – Upton Sinclair, American writer”

— Tim Noakes

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”

— Upton Sinclair

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— Henry David Thoreau

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— Tim Westover

“A man can be rich as long as he reads.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine the can design.”

— Friedrich August von Hayek

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— Marcus Luttrell

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