Policymakers think that if ...

Policymakers think that if they get the abstractions right, that will drive behavior in the desired direction. But the world happens in real time.
Policymakers think that if they get the abstractions right, that will drive behavior in the desired direction. But the world happens in real time.
 Sendhil Mullainathan

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Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Never complain and never explain.
A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.
 George S. Patton
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
 Robert Schuller
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
 Harriet Beecher Stowe

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The ability to save automatically is among the most powerful tools available to us.
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