Quotes of: Rand Keyword

Most important, I have learned from my colleagues and students.

James Tobin

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

Dan Ariely

If monarchy is corrupting - and it is - wait till you see what overt empire does to us.

Daniel Ellsberg

When I was younger, I was drawn to Ayn Rand books and other works of fiction celebrating individualism.

David Harsanyi

The brains of humans contain a mechanism that is designed to give priority to bad news.

Daniel Kahneman

If you're going to be unreligious, it's likely going to be due to reflecting on it and finding some things that are hard to believe.

Daniel Kahneman

Psychologists really aim to be scientists, white-coat stuff, with elaborate statistics, running experiments.

Daniel Kahneman

It's very difficult to distinguish between what a person believes and what they say they believe.

Daniel Kahneman

I enjoy being active, but I look forward to the day when I can retire to the Internet.

Daniel Kahneman

In essence, the optimistic style involves taking credit for successes but little blame for failures.

Daniel Kahneman

For small businesses, you need less taxes, less federal spending, and you need less regulation that blocks their growth.

David Malpass

Schooling after the second grade plays only a minor role in creating or reducing gaps.

James Heckman

As a militant troublemaker, I once wrote that it was the duty of every woman worthy of the description to upset men at least three times a day, on principle.

Julie Burchill

If you write thrillers or mysteries or horror fiction or quote-unquote speculative fiction, men might read you, and the 'Times' might notice you.

Jennifer Weiner

It is impossible to objectively define how free a market is. This is a political definition. Government is always involved, and those free marketers are as politically motivated as anyone.

Ha-Joon Chang

Moreover, in Russia there was an enormous amount of landed property to be divided, large estates, crown lands, government land, and the estates held by the monasteries.

Herman Gorter

There is a saying that every nice piece of work needs the right person in the right place at the right time.

Benoit Mandelbrot

Most people have never thought through how they're going to allocate their time. You need to make a decision in advance.

Clayton M. Christensen

We have lived through the flood time of fascism and of the nazism which ran its meteoric course at a cost to mankind in suffering and waste beyond all computation.

Emily Greene Balch

The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.

Thomas Sowell

Some companies use off-balance-sheet partnerships to raise money or to buy assets without ever telling their shareholders in their financial statements.

Alex Berenson