Daniel Kahneman Quotes

I don't know if we're on the edge of the precipice, but we're in a very, very, very difficult situation.

Uncertainty is killing this economy.

It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong - but that is the way to bet.

You never know what's going to happen. In a game where you're down by 20, you're still trying to win the game.

I'm very confident in my own ability but I'm not guaranteed to get a starting spot.

Great hope has no real footing unless one is willing to face into the doom that may also be on the way. p.207

Look, the point is there's no way to be a hundred percent sure about anyone or anything. So you're left with a choice. Either hope for the best or just expect the worst.

Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look on it as certain.

While the crash only took place six months ago, I am convinced we have passed the worst and with continued unity of effort we shall rapidly recover.

Life is adventure, not predicament.

It's a "keep your fingers crossed" business, the entertainment business.

If I bet on humanity, I'd never cash a ticket.

We are entering an increasingly dangerous period of our history. But I'm an optimist.

The four most dangerous words in finance are 'this time is different.' Thanks to this masterpiece by Carmen Reinhart at the University of Maryland and Kenneth Rogoff of Harvard, no one can doubt this again. . . . The authors have put an immense amount of work into collecting the data financial institutions needed if they were to have any chance of making quantitative risk management work.

But neither of us knows, because a fight's worth nothing if you know from the start that you're going to win it.

Hope may be the thing that pulls you forward, may be the thing that keeps you going, but that it's dangerous, that it's painful and risky, that it's making a dare in the world and when has the world ever let us win a dare?

It's the possibility that keeps me going, not the guarantee.

The oldest [John Kenneth] Galbraith rule is that when you hear that a new era has dawned, you should take cover.

Watching myself fight, I realize the line between success and failure is so narrow, it's scary.

If you're not scared a lot you're not doing very much.

We don't have anything planned, so nothing can go wrong.

Take a shot of vodka and hope for the best.

I think we may safely trust a good deal more than we do.

"We’ll never survive!” “Nonsense. You’re only saying that because no one ever has."