Quote

Money does not buy you happiness, but lack of money certainly buys you misery.

Daniel Kahneman

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Daniel Kahneman
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: March 5
Economist
Psychologist
University Teacher
Tel Aviv
Israel
D Kahneman
Buys
Misery
Lack
Certainly
Happiness
Money
Doe

More quotes by Daniel Kahneman

Image
Hindsight bias makes surprises vanish.
Daniel Kahneman
Image
Through some combination of culture and biology, our minds are intuitively receptive to religion.
Daniel Kahneman
Image
We associate leadership with decisiveness. That perception of leadership pushes people to make decisions fairly quickly, lest they be seen as dithering and indecisive.
Daniel Kahneman
Image
There is a huge wave of interest in happiness among researchers. There is a lot of happiness coaching. Everybody would like to make people happier.
Daniel Kahneman
Image
Establish a closing ritual. Know when to stop working. Try to end each work day the same way, too. Straighten up your desk. Back up your computer. Make a list of what you need to do tomorrow.
Daniel Kahneman
Image
Often, the most enjoyable part of an activity is the anticipation.
Daniel Kahneman
Image
By their very nature, heuristic shortcuts will produce biases, and that is true for both humans and artificial intelligence, but the heuristics of AI are not necessarily the human ones.
Daniel Kahneman
Image
Political columnists and sports pundits are rewarded for being overconfident.
Daniel Kahneman
Image
A large portion of the weekend effects is explained by differences in the amount of time spent with friends or family between weekends and weekdays.
Daniel Kahneman
Image
An individual who expresses high confidence probably has a good story, which may or may not be true.
Daniel Kahneman
Image
When you look at the books about well-being, you see one word - it's happiness. People do not distinguish.
Daniel Kahneman
Image
You should not take your intuitions at face value.
Daniel Kahneman
Image
What happens with fear is that probability doesn't matter very much. That is, once I have raised the possibility that something terrible can happen to your child, even though the possibility is remote, you may find it very difficult to think of anything else. Emotion becomes dominant.
Daniel Kahneman
Image
Optimism is normal, but some fortunate people are more optimistic than the rest of us. If you are genetically endowed with an optimistic bias, you hardly need to be told that you are a lucky person - you already feel fortunate.
Daniel Kahneman
Image
I enjoy being active, but I look forward to the day when I can retire to the Internet.
Daniel Kahneman
Image
Managers think of themselves as captains of a ship on a stormy sea. Risk for them is danger, but they are fighting it, very controlled.
Daniel Kahneman
Image
Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness. A policy to reduce the loneliness of the elderly would certainly reduce suffering.
Daniel Kahneman
Image
Negotiations over a shrinking pie are especially difficult because they require an allocation of losses. People tend to be much more easygoing when they bargain over an expanding pie.
Daniel Kahneman
Image
It's nonsense to say money doesn't buy happiness, but people exaggerate the extent to which more money can buy more happiness.
Daniel Kahneman
Image
Employers who violate rules of fairness are punished by reduced productivity, and merchants who follow unfair pricing policies can expect to lose sales.
Daniel Kahneman