Dan Ariely Quotes About Opportunity
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Money is 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? Now, you would expect people to have an answer. But people were kind of shocked by the question. They never thought about it before. So, the most we got was people said, "Well, if I can't buy this Toyota, if I buy this Toyota, I can't buy a Honda." What is this thing? What is this value of price? Very hard to think about it.
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Money is all about opportunity cost. Every time you spend on something, that's something you can't spend on something else.
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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?
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that when given the opportunity, many honest people will cheat.
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The problem with opportunity cost is that opportunity cost is divided among many, many things.
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