Tim Harford Quotes

• Success Comes Through Rapidly Fixing our Mistakes Rather than Getting Things Right the First Time.

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  Mistake, Fixing, Firsts

  "Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure". Book by Tim Harford, 2011.

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• You show me a successful complex system, and I will show you a system that has evolved through trial and error.

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  Successful, Errors, Trial And Error

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• We should not try to design a better world. We should make better feedback loops.

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  Design, Trying, World

  Tim Harford (2011). “Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure”, p.59, Hachette UK

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• Accepting trial and error means accepting error. It means taking problems in our stride when a decision doesn't work out, whether through luck or misjudgment. And that is not something human brains seem to be able to do without a struggle.

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  Struggle, Mean, Errors

  Tim Harford (2011). “Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure”, p.16, Hachette UK

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• Failure is inevitable; it happens all the time in a complex economy.

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  Economy, Inevitable, Complexes

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• Love may be boundless and abundant, but time isn't. Time is finite.

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  May, Finite, Boundless

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• British politicians used to be good at misleading people without actually lying.

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  Lying, People, Politician

  "Episode 707: Brexit". "Planet Money" with Robert Smith, Jacob Goldstein, www.npr.org. June 26, 2016.

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• Economists have allowed themselves to walk into a trap where we say we can forecast, but no serious economist thinks we can. You don't expect dentists to be able to forecast how many teeth you'll have when you're 80. You expect them to give good advice and fix problems.

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  Pensar, Dar, Consejos

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• There's nothing wrong with a plan, but remember Von Moltke's famous dictum that no plan survives first contact with the enemy. The danger is a plan that seduces us into thinking failure is impossible and adaptation is unnecessary - a kind of ‘Titanic' plan, unsinkable (until it hits the iceberg).

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  Thinking, Enemy, Firsts

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• There is much more to life than what gets measured in accounts. Even economists know that.

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  More To Life, Economist, Accounts

  Tim Harford (2012). “The Undercover Economist”, p.113, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Veo el complejo de Dios a mi alrededor todo el tiempo en mis colegas economistas. Lo veo en nuestros líderes empresariales. Lo veo en los políticos a los que votamos: personas que, ante un mundo increíblemente complicado, están sin embargo absolutamente convencidas de que entienden cómo funciona el mundo.

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  Motivation, Inspiration, Complicated World

  "Trial, error and the God complex". TED conference, www.ted.com. July 2011.

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• Pluralism matters because life is not worth living without new experiences - new people, new places, new challenges. But discipline matters too; we cannot simply treat life as a psychedelic trip through a series of novel sensations.

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  New Experiences, Discipline, People

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• Si todo el proceso de aprender del fracaso significa descartar cosas que no funcionan, pero de hecho, nuestra reacción natural es seguir adelante, tirar más dinero detrás, tirar más energía emocional detrás... eso es un verdadero problema.

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  Real, Mean, Emotional

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• Failure in Innovation - it's a price worth paying.

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  Innovación

  Tim Harford (2011). “Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure”, p.43, Hachette UK

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• People today dont become economists to make the world a better place.

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  People, World, Today

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• We now have political chaos. We've got parties in Ireland saying they want to merge with Northern Ireland. You've got parties in Scotland saying you want to leave the U.K. You've got the Spanish government saying it would like to take ownership of Gibraltar, which is a British overseas territory... So just the politics of this is a mess.

  Tim Harford

  Party, Government, Scotland

  "Episode 707: Brexit". "Planet Money" with Robert Smith, Jacob Goldstein, www.npr.org. June 24, 2016.

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• Economics spreads happiness.

  Tim Harford

  Economics, Spread

  Fuente: www.npr.org

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• Loss aversion is a really disproportionate anxiety about stuff that doesn't matter very much. So for instance, if you lose $5, you feel really bad about the $5 you've lost. You're cursing yourself. You're going through it again and again. If, on the other hand, you find $5, you go - hey, great, five bucks. And you've forgotten about it really quickly.

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  Loss, Hands, Anxiety

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• How did the economy produce all these amazing things that we have around us - computers and cell phones and so on? There were a bunch of ideas, and the good ones grew and prospered. And the bad ones were pretty ruthlessly weeded out.

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  Phones, Cells, Ideas

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• Synthetic Worlds is a surprisingly profound book about the social, political, and economic issues arising from the emergence of vast multiplayer games on the Internet. What Castronova has realized is that these games, where players contribute considerable labor in exchange for things they value, are not merely like real economies, they are real economies, displaying inflation, fraud, Chinese sweatshops, and some surprising in-game innovations.

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  Real, Book, Player

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• Each additional child that you have is going to divide your time and your attention. You're going to have to cram them into a smaller house. They're going to have to share rooms, or you might have to move into the suburbs, somewhere cheaper, further away from where the job is.

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  Jobs, Children, Moving

  Fuente: www.npr.org

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• Trying to be able to have, let's say, more than three partners was absolutely impossible, at least for my own relationships.

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  Trying, Three, Able

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• In many ways, love seems to be totally divorced from economics. But then you realize - well, the stakes are high. This is something that matters to us. We're dealing with scarcity. I mean, if you're dating one person, at the very least, you don't have as much time to date another person. And you may well find that you can only date one person at a time.

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  Mean, Dating, Scarcity

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• I am aiming my books at anybody with no economics background.

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  Book, Economics, Backgrounds

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• Ten percent of American businesses disappear every year. ... It's far higher than the failure rate of, say, Americans. Ten percent of Americans don't disappear every year. Which leads us to conclude American businesses fail faster than Americans, and therefore American businesses are evolving faster than Americans.

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  Motivation, Inspiration, Years

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