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Robert J. Shiller Quotes

American - Economist | March 29, 1946 -

I often tend to think that things are not what they seem.

Robert J. Shiller

Think Things Seem Often Tend

Manufacturers of food try to get the optimal ratio to tap into your impulsivity. They don't care about your health.

Robert J. Shiller

Health Food Care Try Get Your

There's so much disagreement about investing, and it's because nobody really knows.

Robert J. Shiller

Nobody Investing Disagreement Because

In my first few years of elementary school at the Edison School in Detroit, I did poorly. I remember worrying that I might fail the second grade and be held back.

Robert J. Shiller

School Remember Back Detroit First

Even today, I am easily distracted by reading material and will pick up articles on virtually any factual material if I have the time.

Robert J. Shiller

Today Time I Am Reading Will Up

As a child, I was fascinated by any branch of physical or biological science. Even today, I find great excitement in discovering the complexity and variability of the world we live in, getting a glimpse into the deeper reality that we mostly ignore in our everyday human activities.

Robert J. Shiller

Live Today Science Great Child Find

I want to know diverse facts about such things as galaxies or molecules or proteins or insect species. I have an impulse to want to know the little details, which are usually of no significance to non-specialists. I own a dissection microscope, and if there is an insect in the house, I sometimes catch it and look at it under the microscope.

Robert J. Shiller

Facts Details Look House Sometimes

When valuation confidence falls, it means that stock markets are perceived as overpriced.

Robert J. Shiller

Confidence Means Markets Falls Stock

If I was counselling an individual, and my purpose was to help that individual, the most important thing would be that you should save more. Because don't expect that your retirement will follow those trajectories that some advisers are telling you.

Robert J. Shiller

Purpose Retirement Help You Follow

Fifty years ago or a hundred years ago, generally, most people would buy a house the way you buy a car. When you buy a car, do you think, 'I better buy this year rather than next year because car prices might go up?'

Robert J. Shiller

Car People Think Better Year You

What would be better, that people build big houses thinking that they'll make capital gains or that they send their children to medical school and they do research on curing diseases? When you put it that way, it seems obvious. There has developed a sense of personal worth that's tied to one's house.

Robert J. Shiller

Children Medical School People You

Housing traditionally is not viewed as a great investment. It takes maintenance; it depreciates. It goes out of style. All of those are problems. And there's technical progress in housing. So, new ones are better. So, why was it considered an investment? That was a fad.

Robert J. Shiller

Great Style Progress Problems Better

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