Tim Harford Quotes

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

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

Economics spreads happiness.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The more grotesque your boss's pay and the less he has do to earn it, the bigger the motivation for you to work with the aim of being promoted to what he has.

There's lots and lots of guys out there. The question is trying to find the right one.

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