Sendhil Mullainathan Quotes

January is always a good month for behavioral economics: Few things illustrate self-control as vividly as New Year's resolutions. February is even better, though, because it lets us study why so many of those resolutions are broken.

Sendhil Mullainathan

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GoodJanuaryBrokenEconomicsBetter

We are so beaten down by political correctness that most of us are numb to the surrender of America.

Jeanine Pirro

PoliticalAmericaDownSurrenderUs

My mother never liked that I worked undercover. She always worried.

Ron Stallworth

MotherNeverSheAlwaysLiked

The burden of poverty isn't just that you don't always have the things you need: it's the feeling of being embarrassed every day of your life, and you'd do anything to lift that burden. As kids, we didn't complain about being poor; we talked about how rich we were going to be and made moves to get the lifestyle we aspired to by any means we could.

Jay-Z

LifeDayRichPovertyYouEvery Day

I am a quiet man who grows through adversity.

Jose Maria Aznar

AdversityManI AmQuietThroughAm

To the patient, any operation is momentous.

Joseph Murray

PatientOperationAnyMomentous

A culture in which guilt is automatically assumed to be neurotic and unhealthy has devised a remarkably clever way of protecting its self-interest.

Jonathan Kozol

CultureGuiltWayCleverNeurotic

I will be 60 or 70 years old still rocking my Chanel blazer with my hair all coiffed.

Johnny Weir

HairWillOldYearsBlazerStill

I've had to walk through a lot of my tears.

Debbie Reynolds

WalkTearsThroughLotHad

There is no evidence that success in business will make us happy people or allow us to have happy families.

Clayton M. Christensen

SuccessBusinessHappyPeopleWill

When NBC bought USA and SCI FI in 2004, Jeff Zucker put me in charge of USA Networks. We did a lot of research to find out what was working and what wasn't, and we actually had to hear a lot of things we didn't like. USA was predictable; it was boring.

Bonnie Hammer

MeResearchFindBoringOutThings

What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream?

Woody Allen

DreamNothingWhat IfSomebody

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

William Shakespeare

GodYourselfFaceYouMakeGiven

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