Attention Quote by Richard Thaler Download Open image “Sunk costs? We pay too much attention to them.” — Richard Thaler ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Attention Costs Much Pay Too much
After nearly making a terrible mistake not buying See's, we've made this mistake many times. We are apparently slow learners. These opportunity costs don't… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Despite all the hoopla - despite all the umpa - after 5 years of UDP mismanagement, corruption, and incompetence, we have sunk deeper into… — Said Musa Copy Share Image
At What Cost' means so many things: go-gos were shut down for our good, but at what cost? — Goldlink Copy Share Image
We need to stop this overspending. We need to start turning this battleship in the right direction. And we all have to share in… — Jeff Fortenberry Copy Share Image
“We didn't actually overspend our budget. The allocation simply fell short of our expenditure.” — Keith Davis Copy Share Image
As Americans, we shouldn't like bailouts. Where I come from, if someone takes a risk and they're going to make the profit from that… — Henry Paulson Copy Share Image
The best way to create cost overruns in any military acquisition is to change course midstream. That is exactly what Donald Trump wants to… — P. W. Singer Copy Share Image
There are companies that are cutting their costs by over 50% by offshoring. — Sanjay Kumar Copy Share Image
“American bond traders may have sunk their firms by turning a blind eye to the risks in the subprime bond market, but they made… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
There's a financial cost, but the only costs that are ever real are the costs of our soldiers. — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
As the titanic losses were racking up, Fannie Mae's operators, Franklin Raines and Jamie Gorelick, disguised the catastrophe by orchestrating a $5 billion accounting… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
What I don't like from the president's administration is this sort of, 'I'll put my boot heel on the throat of BP.' I think… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
The Nobel Prize is going to be 'fun money' - for an occasion, when my wife and I want a $50 bottle of wine. — Richard Thaler Copy Share Image
In some ways, the finding that financial education doesn't provide long-term payoffs is hardly surprising. After all, how much do you remember from your… — Richard Thaler Copy Share Image
Fortunately, economists open to new ways of thinking are finding novel ways to use supposedly irrelevant factors to make the world a better place. — Richard Thaler Copy Share Image
If people just put away what's left at the end of the month, that's a recipe for failure. — Richard Thaler Copy Share Image
The wealth in many large estates has never been taxed because it is largely in the form of unrealized - therefore untaxed - capital… — Richard Thaler Copy Share Image
The lesson of my field, behavioral economics, is that we need to understand the ways in which we differ from the rational human assumed… — Richard Thaler Copy Share Image
I think behavioral economists don't have any more of an explanation about the rise of Trump than anyone else. — Richard Thaler Copy Share Image
There are cases when I can make myself better off by restricting my future choices and commit myself to a specific course of action. — Richard Thaler Copy Share Image
For amateur golfers, I think one of the biggest mistakes is to model their play on professionals. — Richard Thaler Copy Share Image
he card companies will often, as a courtesy, honor that credit card, but hit you with a penalty. And you keep swiping your card… — Richard Thaler Copy Share Image
Social Security may be the most beloved of all the government's programs, partly because it requires so little thinking. You pay taxes while you… — Richard Thaler Copy Share Image
It appears to me that one great cause of our difference in opinion on subjects which we often discuss is that you have always… — David Ricardo Copy Share Image
People pay far too much attention to the television and they're quite literal in some ways. At the beginning, when I was playing very… — Ardal O'Hanlon Copy Share Image
Television, radio, social media. The 24/7 news cycle plows forward mercilessly on our desks, in our cars and in our pockets. Thousands and thousands… — Joseph Prince Copy Share Image
By making conscious choices in our behavior and where we focus our attention, we can transform our experience of our body, decrease our biological… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
What people don't normally know about us is the hustle is very real, and it's sorely driven a lot by how we consider ourselves.… — Lzzy Hale Copy Share Image
For me, the term "psychotherapy" is limiting. It implies that we work with mind and emotions, but excludes the body and pays scant attention… — Jed Diamond Copy Share Image
When you approach something to photograph it, first be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence. Then don't leave… — Minor White Copy Share Image
I'm writing about real things. Real people. Real characters. You have to believe what I write about is true or you wouldn't pay any… — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
I went to a mosque in Philadelphia with [my wife] in December 24, 1999. And we we went to this mosque in Philly, and… — Mahershala Ali Copy Share Image
The Harvard Business Review recently had an article called 'The Human Moment,' about how to make real contact with a person at work: ...… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
Let us thank God heartily as often as we pray that we have His Spirit in us to teach us to pray. Thanksgiving will… — Andy Murray Copy Share Image