Shiller Quotes

#1. I think what Bob Shiller and I are doing is we're focusing on macroeconomics and the role of psychology in macroeconomics.

George Akerlof

#2. Stunts are really fun.

Ty Simpkins

#3. My meditation is simple. It does not require any complex practices. It is simple. It is singing. It is dancing. It is sitting silently

Rajneesh

#4. Money management has been a profession involving a lot of fakery - people saying they can beat the market, and they really can't.

Robert J. Shiller

#5. Economics is (now) about emotion and psychology.

Robert J. Shiller

#6. The ability to focus attention on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence.

Robert J. Shiller

#7. We always trotted everywhere at Camp Arthur Currie. I never did find out who Currie was, but he must have been a trackman.

Robert A. Heinlein

#8. We who work in technology have nurtured an especially rare gift: the opportunity to effect change at an unprecedented scale and rate. Technology, community, and capitalism combine to make Silicon Valley the potential epicenter of vast positive change.

Justin Rosenstein

#9. Economists who adhere to rational-expectations models of the world will never admit it, but a lot of what happens in markets is driven by pure stupidity - or, rather, inattention, misinformation about fundamentals, and an exaggerated focus on currently circulating stories.

Robert J. Shiller

#10. It amazes me how people are often more willing to act based on little or no data than to use data that is a challenge to assemble.

Robert J. Shiller

#11. My very first publication was an estimator - this was a statistical procedure - a kind of invention. My father got a patent and started a business; it wasn't successful, but maybe I have some of him in me.

Robert J. Shiller

#12. Everyone wanted to see [him] fall so they could devour his remains. As is usually the case, the army of sycophants had turned into a horde of hungry hyenas

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#13. You can't reduce an actual human being; you're just writing! You're not doing anything to another person.

Vivian Gornick

#14. Jesus gave me this book when he was done with it, saying, "You have got to read this shit, Kevin. It's fucking fantastic." Jesus is terrible with names. - ERNEST HEMINGWAY

Jenny Lawson

#15. To-morrow will give some food for thought.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#16. I am worried that the collapse of home prices might turn out to be the most severe since the Great Depression.

Robert J. Shiller

#17. There is no such thing as good painting about nothing.

Mark Rothko

#18. Somehow, talking to young students brings you back to reality - it should, anyway.

Robert J. Shiller

#19. Nike is the uniform for kids all over the world, and African design has been killed by Nike. Africans no longer want to wear their own designs.

M.I.A.

#20. Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Sigmund Freud

#21. Some of the best theorizing comes after collecting data because then you become aware of another reality.

Robert J. Shiller