Sendhil Mullainathan Quotes

It's our nature: Human beings like success but they hate successful people.

Fail, and your friends feel superior. Succeed, and they feel resentful.

Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.

Envy is the central fact of American life.

I never been a hater of these other cats, who never really had nothing, being successful. That's not my problem.

Our success is now so apparent to others that one of our biggest challenges now is to manage the resentment it sometimes generates.

There have been interviews with people saying they are jealous of Kangana. There are so many people who are jealous of my success.

Never trust anyone who wants what you've got. Friend or no, envy is an overwhelming emotion.

Good work is the only thing that would make me feel jealous or envious.

Envy aims very high.

It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.

It's not people who resent successful people; it's resentful people who resent successful people.

All some folks want is their fair share and yours.

If somebody is strong and showing good performances and perfect in the thing you are doing, there are people who want to disturb you.

Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn't that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.

That some are poorer than others, ever was and ever will be: And that many are naturally querulous and envious, is an Evil as old as the World.

How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.

People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves.

Whenever he saw a dollar in another man's hands he took it as a personal grudge, if he couldn't take it any other way.

Everybody hates you when you're the best, and everybody hates you when you're the worst.

Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

Of the seven deadly sins, only envy is no fun at all.

I think it's in human nature to want to have more, to compete with the other and, at some level, to be dissatisfied if someone else has more than you.

Envy is human nature.

My neighbor doesn't want to be loved as much as he wants to be envied.