5 Quotes by Jean Tirole

I should pay attention to what I know and not talk more just because I won a Nobel Prize.

We all suffer from flawed thinking and decision making.

Not only are we subject to cognitive biases, we also frequently seek out things that reinforce them. We interpret facts through the prism of our beliefs; we read the newspapers and seek the company of people who will confirm us in those beliefs; and thus we stick obstinately to these beliefs, whether or not they are correct.

When we think about an economic problem, the first answer that occurs to us is not always the correct one.

On Economic Nobel Prize 2014: I see one of my daughters is on Skype with me from London and in fact it is actually quite moving for the whole family of course.