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One that we are just beginning to understand- is that trust, once eroded, is very hard to restore.

WHAT IS IT about FREE! that's so enticing? Why do we have an irrational urge to jump for a FREE! item, even when it's not what we really want?

One fall day in Boston, a tall mechanical engineering student named Joe entered the student union at Harvard University. He was all ambition and acne

People are willing to work free, and they are willing to work for a reasonable wage; but offer them just a small payment and they will walk away.

The danger of expecting nothing is that, in the end, it might be all we'll get.

Not all debt is bad. From time to time we should get into debt when there's a good reason for that.

Why would you take money out of your paycheck at the beginning of the month when you don't know how much money you'll need?

Marketing is all about providing information that will heighten someone's anticipated and real pleasure.

Do you know why we still have a headache after taking a one-cent aspirin, but why that same headache vanishes when the aspirin costs 50 cents? Do

In a modern democracy, he said, people are beset not by a lack of opportunity, but by a dizzying abundance of it.

The difference between two cents and one cent is small. But the difference between one cent and zero is huge!

The question, then, is whether the only force that keeps us from carrying out misdeeds is the fear of being seen by others ...

the pleasure that I get day in and day out comes from working jointly with amazing researchers/friends -

The experiments show quite clearly that, as you resist more and more temptation, you're actually more and more likely to fail.

Use a clock in the upper righthand corner to indicate how much time the user has saved because of your product.

There are many examples to show that people will work more for a cause than for cash.

A glass of wine will taste better after reading a positive review of it,

Resisting temptation and instilling self-control are general human goals, and repeatedly failing to achieve them is a source of much of our misery.

religions attempt to influence our mind-sets in the moment of temptation by incorporating different moral reminders into our environment.

If you ever go bar hopping, who do you want to take with you? You want a slightly uglier version of yourself. Similar ... but slightly uglier.

What reminds you in your environment about saving? Nothing.

The first dishonest act is the most important one to prevent.

Even the most analytical thinkers are predictably irrational; the really smart ones acknowledge and address their irrationalities.

When parents have college savings accounts for their kids, their kids show higher social and cognitive performance.

Companies, however
unintentionally, choke the motivation out of their employees.

in order to make a man covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain." H

When you're in pain, tomorrow doesn't exist - just the pain - and the only thing that you want in the world is for it to go away.

That when given the opportunity, many honest people will cheat.

The more cashless our society becomes, the more our moral compass slips.

Honesty, transparency, conscientiousness, and fair dealing should be bedrock corporate principles.

The translation of joy into willingness to work seems to depend to a large degree on how much meaning we can attribute to our own labor.

From the beginning, for instance, Assael "anchored" his pearls to the finest gems in the world-and the prices followed forever after.

Money is all about opportunity cost. Every time you spend on something, that's something you can't spend on something else.

Every year, employees' theft and fraud at the workplace are estimated at about $600 billion.

None of us always make the best financial decisions.

what consumers are willing to pay can easily be manipulated, and this means that consumers don't in fact have a good handle on their own preferences

As Oscar Wilde once wrote, "Morality, like art, means drawing a line somewhere." The question is: where is the line?

religion attempts to influence our mind-set before we are tempted, by creating moral education and - let's not forget - guilt.

When you get a checking account, you should have a savings account, and the number for the savings account should be one off of your checking account.

Brands communicate in two directions: they help us tell other people something about ourselves, but they also help us form ideas about who we are.

If I pay you lots of money to see reality in a certain way, you will.

Wouldn't economics make a lot more sense if it were based on how people actually behave, instead of how they should behave?

Even the most brilliant and rational person, in the heat of passion, seems to be absolutely and completely divorced from the person he thought he was.

The problem is that people basically dangle debt in front of us. And the cost for the poor of course is much higher than for the wealthy.

[T]he distance Boston drivers generally maintain from the car in front of them is visible only with a good microscope.

In life we encounter many people who, in some way or another, try to tattoo our faces.

Individuals are honest only to the extent that suits them (including their desire to please others)

MONEY, AS IT turns out, is very often the most expensive way to motivate people. Social norms are not only cheaper, but often more effective as well.

People are irrational - and predictably so.

Disasters are usually a good time to re-examine what we've done so far, what mistakes we've made, and what improvements should come next.

Thinking is difficult and sometimes unpleasant.

I don't know what exactly the translation is but when we do consume something now, something else has to give at some point.

Believing you are a bad person leads to a slippery slope.

The idea that you will make the right decision every time is very unlikely.

But suppose we are nothing more than the sum of our first, naive, random behaviors. What then?

Honesty is a complex and tricky thing, and we don't want to be honest all the time.

Man is a pliant animal, a being who gets accustomed to anything. - FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY

It was shocking to realize how many low-income Americans don't have savings accounts.

Some special conpanies see trust as the pulic good.

People choose to work more if they do it for free or if well-compensated but not if it is compensated with a little money.

The people who need to overcome temptation to the highest degree have the hardest time doing it.

the girls had on enough makeup to make Elizabeth Taylor look unadorned

But because human being tend to focus on short-term benefits and our own immediate needs, such tragedies of the commons occur frequently .

Giving up on our long-term goals for immediate gratification, my friends, is procrastination.

In a blind taste, balsamic vinegar actually makes it taste better).

We are all very good at rationalizing our actions so that they are in line with our selfish motives.

Recognizing our shortcomings is a crucial first step on the path to making better decisions, creating better societies, and fixing our institutions.

Human beings are inherently social and trusting animals.

I always found the appeal to the market gods a bit odd. Why would the market fix mistakes instead of aggravating them?

One of the big lessons from behavioral economics is that we make decisions as a function of the environment that we're in.

There's something about [cyclically] doing something over and over and over that seems to be particularly demotivating.

We are pawns in a game whose forces we largely fail to comprehend.

The problem with opportunity cost is that opportunity cost is divided among many, many things.

When people are in severe pain, there's an expression, you're a "pain person," and what that means is that nothing else matters.

A very simple bad decision is to get into debt. And that is very expensive.

Thoreau wrote, "Simplify! Simplify!" And, indeed, simplification is one mark of real genius.

We need to believe that we're good people, and we'll do just about anything to maintain that perception.

Once you break the social norm and create a new social norm, all of a sudden it can stay with us for a long time.

With everything you do, in fact, you should train yourself to question your repeated behaviors.

In running back and forth among the things that might be important, we forget to spend enough time on what really is important.

That's a lesson we can all learn: the more we have, the more we want. And the only cure is to break the cycle of relativity.