Richard Thaler Quotes

The lesson for businesses is you are dealing with real people. Those are your customers, those are your employees, those are your bosses, and the better you understand how real people tick, the more successfully you will be able to accomplish your goals.

Richard Thaler

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The Old Vic is a beautiful theater to work in. It's quite a large house, but it has a feeling of intimacy.

Jennifer Ehle

WorkBeautifulHouseFeelingOld

Well, the only way I can get a leading-man role is if I write it.

John Cleese

I CanWayWriteWellGetRole

I decided to do whatever I could to make sure the business side of music didn't intrude on the creative part.

Tracy Chapman

BusinessMusicCreativeWhatever

A typical biography relying upon individuals' notorious memories and the anecdotes they've invented contains a high degree of fiction, yet is considered 'nonfiction.'

Joyce Carol Oates

MemoriesDegreeHighFictionTypical

We found evolution will punish you if you're selfish and mean. For a short time and against a specific set of opponents, some selfish organisms may come out ahead. But selfishness isn't evolutionarily sustainable.

Chris Adami

TimeSelfishShortYouEvolution

Words are a commodity in which there is never any slump.

Christopher Morley

WordsNeverSlumpWhichCommodity

The fact to which we have got to cling, as to a lifebelt, is that it is possible to be a normal decent person and yet be fully alive.

Allen Ginsberg

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Little startups are ridiculously overfunded.

Sean Parker

LittleStartupsRidiculously

In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names.

Mortimer Adler

LoveNamesEnglishMustDifferent

I will never tire of recommending the custom, practiced by the best architects, of preparing not only drawings and sketches, but also models of wood or any other material. These... enable us to examine... the work as a whole... and, before continuing any further, to estimate the likely trouble and expense.

Leon Battista Alberti

WorkBestTroubleWoodWillNever

Expressing the thoughts of my comrades, I suggested, among other means, the organization of an international information service on inventories, on production, and on the needs of the various countries for raw materials.

Leon Jouhaux

ServiceThoughtsOrganizationRaw

Everything good takes a great amount of effort. Like, things went wrong with 'Prozac Nation' so much, and it went through so many rejections and incarnations, but I felt so much that it needed to exist. But if I hadn't been so persistent and insistent, it wouldn't have happened.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

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