“A person who has not made peace with his losses is likely to accept gambles that would be unacceptable to him otherwise.”
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“It has been more profitable for us to bind together in the wrong direction than to be alone in the right one. Those who have followed the assertive idiot rather than the introspective wise person have passed us some of their genes. This is apparent from a social pathology: psychopaths rally followers.”
― The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
― The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
“Money does not buy you happiness, but lack of money certainly buys you misery.”
― Well-Being: Foundations of Hedonic Psychology
― Well-Being: Foundations of Hedonic Psychology
“The psychologist, Paul Rozin, an expert on disgust, observed that a single cockroach will completely wreck the appeal of a bowl of cherries, but a cherry will do nothing at all for a bowl of cockroaches.”
― Thinking, Fast and Slow
― Thinking, Fast and Slow
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