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

~Daniel Kahneman

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It doesn't take many observations to think you've spotted a trend, and it's probably not a trend at all.

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

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If owning stocks is a long-term project for you, following their changes constantly is a very, very bad idea. It's the worst possible thing you can do, because people are so sensitive to short-term losses. If you count your money every day, you'll be miserable.

~Daniel Kahneman

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

~Daniel Kahneman

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Except for some effects that I attribute mostly to age, my intuitive thinking is just as prone to overconfidence, extreme predictions, and the planning fallacy as it was before I made a study of these issues.

~Daniel Kahneman

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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

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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

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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

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There's a very good reason for why economics developed the way it did, and that is that in many situations, the assumption that people will exploit the opportunities available to them is very plausible, and it simplifies the analysis of how markets will behave.

~Daniel Kahneman

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Biography

Nationality: Israeli

Type: Psychologist

Born: March 5th, 1934

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