"The more grotesque your boss's pay and the……" — Tim Harford
"The more grotesque your boss's pay and the less he has do to earn it, the bigger the motivation for you to work with the aim of being promoted to what he has."
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18 Quotes by Tim Harford
Tim Harford has 18 quotes on this site.
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Accepting trial and error means accepting error. It means taking problems in our stride when a decision doesn't work out,…
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Success Comes Through Rapidly Fixing our Mistakes Rather than Getting Things Right the First Time
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We should not try to design a better world. We should make better feedback loops.
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I see the God complex around me all the time in my fellow economists. I see it in our business…
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Ten percent of American businesses disappear every year. ... It's far higher than the failure rate of, say, Americans. Ten…
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You show me a successful complex system, and I will show you a system that has evolved through trial and…
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There's nothing wrong with a plan, but remember Von Moltke's famous dictum that no plan survives first contact with the…
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If the whole process of learning from failure means discarding stuff that's not working, but in fact, our natural reaction…
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Economists have allowed themselves to walk into a trap where we say we can forecast, but no serious economist thinks…
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Failure is inevitable; it happens all the time in a complex economy.
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Pluralism matters because life is not worth living without new experiences - new people, new places, new challenges. But discipline…
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There is much more to life than what gets measured in accounts. Even economists know that.
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More Aim Quotes
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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
— Aristotle
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The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
— Aristotle
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
— Aristotle
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Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause…
— Mahmoud Abbas
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Tourism is a crucial industry that could employ millions of Filipinos, skilled and unskilled alike, cross those 7,107 islands of…
— Benigno Aquino III
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If you watch animals objectively for any length of time, you're driven to the conclusion that their main aim in…
— David Attenborough
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Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.
— Jane Austen
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The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment…
— Johann Sebastian Bach
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A boy carries out suggestions more wholeheartedly when he understands their aim.
— Robert Baden-Powell
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Social media is a giant distraction to the ultimate aim, which is honing your craft as a songwriter. There are…
— Bryan Adams
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Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social…
— Jacques Barzun
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