Sendhil Mullainathan famous quotes

The scarcity trap captures this notion we see again and again in many domains. When people have very little, they undertake behaviors that maintain or reinforce their future disadvantage. If you have very little, you often behave in such a way so that youll have little in the future.
-- Sendhil Mullainathan

#People #Scarcity #Littles

Policymakers think that if they get the abstractions right, that will drive behavior in the desired direction. But the world happens in real time.
-- Sendhil Mullainathan

#Real #Thinking #World

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

#New Year #Self #Years

Eat better or work out more, and youll see the benefits weeks, months or years down the road. Sleep more, and youll see the benefits tomorrow.
-- Sendhil Mullainathan

#Sleep #Years #Work Out

The ability to save automatically is among the most powerful tools available to us.
-- Sendhil Mullainathan

#Powerful #Tools #Ability

Faced with a time shortage, we squeeze tasks into the nooks and crannies of our calendar, leaving less and less time to switch between them. As a result, we become less and less productive exactly when we need to be most productive.
-- Sendhil Mullainathan

#Leaving #Tasks #Needs

Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.

Money has no color. If you can build a better mousetrap, it won't matter whether you're black or white. People will buy it.

What drives innovation is abundance and ease, not the pressure of scarcity.

Learn to sustain yourselves; lay up grain and flour, and save it against a day of scarcity.

Time and space - time to be alone, space to move about - these may well become the great scarcities of tomorrow.

Hunger is not caused by a scarcity of food but a scarcity of democracy,

I think it is not well known in the Church that payment of tithing has very little to do with money. Tithing has to do with faith.

I'm portable. I carry a laptop and a little recording studio on my back.

Some men, like spaniels, will only fawn the more when repulsed, but will pay little heed to a friendly caress.

I could not have slept tonight if I had left that helpless little creature to perish on the ground.