Apprehension Quote by Thorstein Veblen

Undervaluations caused by neglect or prejudice may persist for an inconveniently long time, and the same applies to inflated prices caused by over-enthusiasm or…

— Benjamin Graham

A physical shortcoming could produce a kind of mental excess. The process, it seemed, was reversible. Mental excess could produce, for its own purposes,…

— Aldous Huxley

“When you scatter your energy, effort, and resources across too many priorities, you risk breakdown from the lack of focus and attention. Mistakes from…

— Mark Samuel

When everyone feels that risks are at their minimum, over-confidence can take over and elementary precautions start to get watered down.

— Ian Macfarlane

There is something in us, somehow, that, in the most degraded condition, we snatch at a chance to deceive ourselves into a fanciedsuperiority to…

— Herman Melville

It is the effect of scarcity; one’s rules of propriety make one thirst for the improper.

— Mohsin Hamid

“A grudging willingness to admit error does not suffice; you have to cultivate a taste for it.”

— Aaron Haspel

Rather, for all objects and experiences, there is a quantity that has optimum value. Above that quantity, the variable becomes toxic. To fall below…

— Gregory Bateson

“Our fear of failing at various tasks would likely be much less were it not for our awareness of how harshly failure tends to…

— Alain de Botton

Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.

— Anonymous

“Most people overestimate risk, failure, and danger and underestimate the value of being curious.”

— Todd Kashdan

Behavioral economics offers a plausible explanation for overreactions by the market. For example, a long period of bad performance can lead to stereotyping.

— Richard Thaler