Quotes by Tim Harford

Tim Harford

A lot of international companies invest in the U.K. as a base for doing business with the rest of the European Union.

Company

European Union

Unions

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.

Errors

Mean

Struggle

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

Lying

People

Politician

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.

Children

Jobs

Moving

Economics spreads happiness.

Economics

Spread

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.

Advice

Giving

Thinking

Failure in Innovation – it’s a price worth paying.

Innovation

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

Complexes

Economy

Inevitable

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.

Cells

Ideas

Phones

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

Backgrounds

Book

Economics

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Accounts

Advice

Anxiety

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Book

Boss

Boundless

Cells

Children

Company

Complexes

Complicated World

Country

Dating

Design

Discipline

Economics

Economist

Economy

Emotional

Enemy

Errors

European Union

Finite

Firsts

Fixing

Giving

Government

Guy

Hands

Ideas

Inevitable

Innovation

Inspiration

Jobs

Loss

Lying

May

Mean

Mistake

More To Life

Motivation

Movement

Moving

New Experiences

Party

Pay

People

Phones

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Quotes by Tim Harford

Tim Harford

A lot of international companies invest in the U.K. as a base for doing business with the rest of the European Union.

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.

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

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.

Economics spreads happiness.

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.

Failure in Innovation – it’s a price worth paying.

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

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.

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

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