41 Quotes by Steven Levitt

Because everyone still 'loves Lucy' she left a great legacy behind,

The key to learning is feedback. It is nearly impossible to learn anything without it.

After all, your chances of winning a lottery and of affecting an election are pretty similar. From a financial perspective, playing the lottery is a bad investment. But it's fun and relatively cheap: for the price of a ticket, you buy the right to fantasize how you'd spend the winnings - much as you get to fantasize that your vote will have some impact on policy.

And knowing what happens on average is a good place to start. By so doing, we insulate ourselves from the tendency to build our thinking - our daily decisions, our laws, our governance - on exceptions and anomalies rather than on reality

An expert must be BOLD if he hopes to alchemize his homespun theory into conventional wisdom.

Levitt admits to having the reading interests of a tweener girl, the Twilight series and Harry Potter in particular.

The gulf between the information we proclaim & the information we know to be true is vast. In other words: we say one thing & do another.

Scarcity is a captivating book, overflowing with new ideas, fantastic stories, and simple suggestions that just might change the way you live.

As W.C. Fields once said: a thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for.