Dan Ariely Quotes

Investors need to get rewarded for their investment, especially in unstable countries.

In troubled times the last thing you want to do is to stick your money into a film. It's such a gamble.

Investors have few spare tires left. Think of the image of a car on a bumpy road to an uncertain destination that has already used up its spare tire. The cash reserves of people have been eaten up by the recent market volatility.

Because in the New Normal you are more worried about the return of your capital, not return on your capital.

Most business people today are not going to invest in the uncertainty that exists in America.

There is no safe haven in today's markets.

A financial crisis is a great time for professional investors and a horrible time for average ones.

There's a loss of faith in the banking system that for so long has been the backbone of prosperity and growth.

The current crisis is not simply a market failure in which prices are not functioning properly, but a profound loss of faith in money’s capacity to tell the truth.

It's actually a pretty basic concept: when businesses feel secure and confident, they are more likely to grow, hire, and invest. Conversely, when the economy is unstable, businesses often become much more risk averse, and in many cases, they're forced to make undesirable cuts that affect their bottom line.

The Fed cannot levitate markets forever. And when they finally do move, I think we have to be prepared for a considerable amount of turbulence.

I am not for buying into financial services firms because I am not sure of the quality.

I would rather sustain the penalties resulting from over-conservatism than face the consequences of error, perhaps with permanent capital loss, resulting from the adoption of "New Era" philosophy where trees really do grow to the sky.

You could lose hundreds or thousands one day on paper and gain it all back the next, and it has literally no effect on your immediate future, provided the money you have in the market is money you're investing for the long haul (meaning at least three to five years).

A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, 'At my age, I don't even buy green bananas.'

Alas, in 1929 came the Stock Market crash and everything changed and became worrisome. People started practicing conservatism because of financial losses, myself included.

One day we will have more inflation, and our bonds will bleed like a pig. The only reason for buying long bonds is short-term or as a desperate haven for terrorized investors. But the potential to make longer-term real money is naught.

When you have risk aversion in Japan, the normal day-to-day outflows that happen in a normal market environment slow down.

Suning Appliance has no problem of financial risk. Do you think I'm risky? I'm definitely not risky.

When people get scared, they quit giving.

I am very conservative. I don't invest in anything that is risky. If someone comes to me with a project idea, I let them risk their money, not mine.

Every day, every week without taking decisions is a problem for us, is a very wrong message for the markets and increases the lack of credibility of our economies.

We really haven't had very much experience with people funding their retirement out of the stock market, and we don't know, frankly, how it would work under every scenario.

I could never gamble on stocks and shares because I saw my father get hurt that way - he lost quite a lot of money when the stock market collapsed in 2001.

If you don't trust someone to look after your investments, then they shouldn't be doing the job for you.