Put simply, the link between creativity and dishonesty seems related to the ability to tell ourselves stories about how we are doing the right thing, even when we are not. The more creative we are, the more we are able to come up with good stories that help us justify our selfish interests.

— Dan Ariely

Dan Ariely Quotes

What people do is they pay the small loans first. Why? Because they enjoy making the number of loans smaller. But of course it is a very ineffective way to pay debt down.

— Dan Ariely

It was shocking to realize how many low-income Americans don’t have savings accounts.

— Dan Ariely

Money is a wonderful invention. It lets us save, it lets us specialize, right? I couldn’t be a professor if there wasn’t any money. Every day I would have to raise chicken and bread and broccoli and go ahead and spend all my time trading. So, money is a wonderful mechanism.

— Dan Ariely

Money are very difficult to think about. So, we think about money as the opportunity cost of money. So, we at some point went to a Toyota dealership and we asked people, what will you not be able to do in the future if you bought this Toyota?

— Dan Ariely

We don’t really want a huge house, but we want the house to be slightly bigger than our neighbors, and a car that is bigger than our neighbor’s, and they’re going on vacation that’s slightly more expensive, and this escalation happens that things got out of hand.

— Dan Ariely

If I gave you now, $10 as a gift, how happy would you be? Would you be happy, is the marginal $10, the best use of $10 you can use? Of course not. If I have you a CD, you know exactly what you are getting and you will have a value for it. So, money has lots of problems with it.

— Dan Ariely

Believing you are a bad person leads to a slippery slope.

— Dan Ariely

Once you break the social norm and create a new social norm, all of a sudden it can stay with us for a long time.

— Dan Ariely

Not all debt is bad. From time to time we should get into debt when there’s a good reason for that.

— Dan Ariely

A very simple bad decision is to get into debt. And that is very expensive.

— Dan Ariely

I don’t want to say that the poor are inherently cognitively diminished, but at the end of the day of making difficult, tough decisions, it’s very hard to have the energy to think about things with the right mindset.

— Dan Ariely

I don’t know what exactly the translation is but when we do consume something now, something else has to give at some point.

— Dan Ariely

What reminds you in your environment about saving? Nothing.

— Dan Ariely

When we save, everybody in the household is just suffering. By having the coin in a visible way, when you scratch, you can say the person that is in charge of the making money for the family is doing the right thing.

— Dan Ariely

None of us always make the best financial decisions.

— Dan Ariely

You can think about life as a battle between you and a doughnut shop. The doughnut shop wants you to eat another doughnut and pay the money, and you want to do it in the short term, but in the long term it’s not good for you either financially or from a health perspective.

— Dan Ariely

Why would you take money out of your paycheck at the beginning of the month when you don’t know how much money you’ll need?

— Dan Ariely

The people who need to overcome temptation to the highest degree have the hardest time doing it.

— Dan Ariely

Money is all about opportunity cost. Every time you spend on something, that’s something you can’t spend on something else.

— Dan Ariely

When parents have college savings accounts for their kids, their kids show higher social and cognitive performance.

— Dan Ariely
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