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Although professionals are ab...

Although professionals are able to extract a considerable amount of wealth from amateurs, few stock pickers, if any, have the skill needed to beat the market consistently, year after year.

Daniel Kahneman 191 quotes

Poverty is clearly one source...

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 191 quotes

Alternative descriptions of t...

Alternative descriptions of the same reality evoke different emotions and different associations.

Daniel Kahneman 191 quotes

I think one of the major resu...

I think one of the major results of the psychology of decision making is that people's attitudes and feelings about losses and gains are really not symmetric. So we really feel more pain when we lose $10,000 than we feel pleasure when we get $10,000.

Daniel Kahneman 191 quotes

There's a tendency to look at...

There's a tendency to look at investments in isolation. Investors focus on the risk of individual securities.

Daniel Kahneman 191 quotes

It was always assumed I would...

It was always assumed I would be a professor. I grew up thinking it.

Daniel Kahneman 191 quotes

Policy makers, like most peop...

Policy makers, like most people, normally feel that they already know all the psychology and all the sociology they are likely to need for their decisions. I don't think they are right, but that's the way it is.

Daniel Kahneman 191 quotes

Human beings cannot comprehen...

Human beings cannot comprehend very large or very small numbers. It would be useful for us to acknowledge that fact.

Daniel Kahneman 191 quotes

We know that the French are v...

We know that the French are very different from the Americans in their satisfaction with life. They're much less satisfied. Americans are pretty high up there, while the French are quite low - the world champions in life satisfaction are actually the Danes.

Daniel Kahneman 191 quotes

We're beautiful devices. The ...

We're beautiful devices. The devices work well; we're all experts in what we do. But when the mechanism fails, those failures can tell you a lot about how the mind works.

Daniel Kahneman 191 quotes

My interest in well-being evo...

My interest in well-being evolved from my interest in decision making - from raising the question of whether people know what they will want in the future and whether the things that people want for themselves will make them happy.

Daniel Kahneman 191 quotes

When people evaluate their li...

When people evaluate their life, they compare themselves to a standard of what a successful life is, and it turns out that standard tends to be universal: People in Togo and Denmark have the same idea of what a good life is, and a lot of that has to do with money and material prosperity.

Daniel Kahneman 191 quotes

Divorced women, compared to m...

Divorced women, compared to married women, are less satisfied with their lives, which is not surprising. But they're actually more cheerful, when you look at the average mood they're in in the course of the day.

Daniel Kahneman 191 quotes

People are really happier wit...

People are really happier with friends than they are with their families or their spouse or their child.

Daniel Kahneman 191 quotes

You know, the standard state ...

You know, the standard state for people is 'mildly pleasant.' Negative emotions are quite rare, and extremely positive emotions are rare. But people are mildly pleased most of the time, they're mildly tired a lot of the time, and they wish they were somewhere else a substantial part of the time - but mostly they're mildly pleased.

Daniel Kahneman 191 quotes

You're surprised by something...

You're surprised by something, but you don't really know what surprised you; you recognize someone, but you don't really know what cues cause you to recognize that person.

Daniel Kahneman 191 quotes

In a rising market, enough of...

In a rising market, enough of your bad ideas will pay off so that you'll never learn that you should have fewer ideas.

Daniel Kahneman 191 quotes

Banks are run by executives, ...

Banks are run by executives, and executives protect themselves, and that does not always mean that banks are going to behave rationally.

Daniel Kahneman 191 quotes

The experiencing self lives i...

The experiencing self lives in the moment; it is the one that answers the question, 'Does it hurt?' or 'What were you thinking about just now?' The remembering self is the one that answers questions about the overall evaluation of episodes or periods of one's life, such as a stay in the hospital or the years since one left college.

Daniel Kahneman 191 quotes

Political columnists and spor...

Political columnists and sports pundits are rewarded for being overconfident.

Daniel Kahneman 191 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

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