Tim Harford Quotes

“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.”

“Companies pay amazing amounts of money to get answers from consultants with overdeveloped confidence in their own intuition.”

“Doing foolish things in an attempt ‘to correct the past’, like marrying the man whose baby you just aborted, isn’t unusual at all. It’s part of being human.”

“No plan survives first contact with the enemy. What matters is how quickly the leader is able to adapt.”

“The most successful industry of the last forty years has been built on failure after failure after failure.”