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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

Topics: Compare Denmark Evaluate Good Good Life Idea Life Lot Material Money Out People Prosperity Same Standard Successful Tends Themselves Turns Universal

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One thing we have lost, that we had in the past, is a sense of progress, that things are getting better. There is a sense of volatility, but not of progress.

~Daniel Kahneman

Topics: Better Getting Getting Better Had In The Past Lost One Thing Past Progress Sense Thing Things Volatility

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When people talk of the economy being strong, they don't seem to feel that they, too, are better off.

~Daniel Kahneman

Topics: Being Being Strong Better Better Off Economy Feel Off People Seem Strong Talk Too

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People who know math understand what other mortals understand, but other mortals do not understand them. This asymmetry gives them a presumption of superior ability.

~Daniel Kahneman

Topics: Ability Gives Know Math Mortals Other People Presumption Superior Them Understand Who

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People talk of the new economy and of reinventing themselves in the workplace, and in that sense most of us are less secure.

~Daniel Kahneman

Topics: Economy Less Most New People Reinventing Secure Sense Talk Themselves Us Workplace

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It's very easy for trusted companies to mislead naive customers, and life insurance companies are trusted.

~Daniel Kahneman

Topics: Companies Customers Easy Insurance Insurance Companies Life Life Insurance Mislead Naive Trusted Very

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The concept of happiness has to be reorganised.

~Daniel Kahneman

Topics: Concept Happiness

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

~Daniel Kahneman

Topics: Focus Individual Investments Investors Isolation Look Risk Securities Tendency

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Most people are highly optimistic most of the time.

~Daniel Kahneman

Topics: Highly Most Optimistic People Time

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All of us would be better investors if we just made fewer decisions.

~Daniel Kahneman

Topics: Better Decisions Fewer Investors Just Made Us Would

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Biography

Nationality: Israeli

Type: Psychologist

Born: March 5th, 1934

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