Barry Schwartz quote: "The most important thing is to learn that good enough is almost always good enough; you don't need to find the best. You'll be happier if, once you find something that meets your standards, you stop looking and don't worry about it."

I start with an idea that is no more than a paragraph long, and expand it slowly into an outline. Bu...
BARRY SCHWARTZ

How much does it really matter whether your child will soon be enjoying a first year at Harvard or Y...
BARRY SCHWARTZ

Practical wisdom is what's called for in situations that have a moral dimension to them.
BARRY SCHWARTZ

What I look for in any book is an argument, based on evidence, that changes the way I think about so...
BARRY SCHWARTZ

Of course, bankers were always interested in making money. But when bankers had clients, they bore s...
BARRY SCHWARTZ

People who work in financial services don't have one shred of concern about the well-being of th...
BARRY SCHWARTZ

I don't really read 'business books,' and I didn't think 'The Paradox of Choice&...
BARRY SCHWARTZ

Everybody makes money for a living, but most of us actually do something that has a point, in additi...
BARRY SCHWARTZ

Years of research in psychology has shown that rewards and punishments can be very effective in chan...
BARRY SCHWARTZ

Too little attention is paid to the dark side of incentives. They are anything but a magic bullet. P...
BARRY SCHWARTZ

In an ideal world, nobody's work would be just about the money. People could pursue excellence i...
BARRY SCHWARTZ

When you rely on incentives, you undermine virtues. Then when you discover that you actually need pe...
BARRY SCHWARTZ

The assumption is that if choice is good, more choice is better. That's not necessarily true.
BARRY SCHWARTZ

It paralyzes people into indecision.
BARRY SCHWARTZ

There's an ice cream place in Vancouver that has 200 flavors, if you can believe that. But the peopl...
BARRY SCHWARTZ

It is a daunting challenge if you have 100 funds to choose from. People are terrified that they will...
BARRY SCHWARTZ

This is just not a world for amateurs. The stakes are higher for things like health care and retirem...
BARRY SCHWARTZ

The sky is the limit on what the complications can cost.
BARRY SCHWARTZ

Our institutions and values are in jeopardy as the mores of the market pervade all social life in th...
BARRY SCHWARTZ

Yom Kippur is about personal and community transgressions. The fasting remains a compelling element....
BARRY SCHWARTZ

On Yom Kippur, we gather as individuals, as part of a community and as part of a country, ... For mo...
BARRY SCHWARTZ

The unbelievable catastrophe that is (the Medicare situation) is a prime example of ideology dominat...
BARRY SCHWARTZ

It's not too late to develop new friendships or reconnect with people.
MORRIE SCHWARTZ

Holidays in general breed unrealistic expectations. The minute you start wondering, 'is it going...
PEPPER SCHWARTZ

Live every day as if it were your last, because one of these days, it will be.
JEREMY SCHWARTZ

Major writing is to say what has been seen, so that it need never be said again.
DELMORE SCHWARTZ

I am personally interested in more than just business schools. However, life has been good to me, an...
GERRY SCHWARTZ

I admired my father very much... at the age of sixteen. But now I see that he was a brutal and cruel...
DELMORE SCHWARTZ

The plan of action we are announcing today is critical to stepping up the pace of using the nation's...
ALAN SCHWARTZ

North and South always go at it. There's always a little something extra there, and everyone plays a...
ALAN SCHWARTZ

Year after year, Hodes continues to produce high quality, creative recruitment tools and materials t...
ALAN SCHWARTZ

I thought we were the good guys. I thought we were the ones with the high standards.
ALAN SCHWARTZ

Yet, only years after the Nazi-era, millions were sent to their deaths in places such as Cambodia, B...
ALLYSON SCHWARTZ

If you study both 'Gilligan' and 'Brady,' you will see they are based on a similar p...
SHERWOOD SCHWARTZ

Deputy sheriffs had always held the power in the jails. They controlled the culture of the place. if...
SUNNY SCHWARTZ

We are hoarding potentials so great that they are just about unimaginable.
JACK SCHWARTZ

And hence the poet must seek to be essentially anonymous,
He must die a little death each morning...
DELMORE SCHWARTZ

May memory restore again and again
The smallest color of the smallest day:
Time is the school...
DELMORE SCHWARTZ

So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy do...
MORRIE SCHWARTZ

Let go of certainty. The opposite isn't uncertainty. It's openness, curiosity and a willingness to e...
TONY SCHWARTZ

Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable a...
DELMORE SCHWARTZ

After you have wept and grieved for your physical losses, cherish the functions and the life you hav...
MORRIE SCHWARTZ

Genocide is an attempt to exterminate a people, not to alter their behavior.
JACK SCHWARTZ

Dying is only one thing to be sad over... Living unhappily is something else.
MORRIE SCHWARTZ

By this time we're all on equal footing; we understand each other and know each other. It makes for ...
BEN SCHWARTZ

I have to give the credit to Mr. Volpe at the announcer?s table, he makes me laugh, gives me nicknam...
BEN SCHWARTZ

Tell me it's wrong to call up Steve Pederson's house at three in the morning, breathe heavily into t...
BEN SCHWARTZ

Tell me it's wrong to call up Steve Pederson's house at 3 in the morning, breathe heavily into the p...
BEN SCHWARTZ

I don't think they thought I was a threat to Steve Pederson. They thought someone would read my colu...
BEN SCHWARTZ

We just went out there and swam, did a good job. Pumps everybody up. We still have two relay races t...
BEN SCHWARTZ

I haven't gotten the sense that people are using the parties as a way to hook up.
ANDREW SCHWARTZ

Congratulations. You've all just been rejected and you're still alive. We're trying to create an atm...
ANDREW SCHWARTZ

Full-body hugs are OK. But the pelvic grind is not allowed.
ANDREW SCHWARTZ

Now that choke-hold has been relieved at least for a week.
ANDREW SCHWARTZ

Whether we see it this day, this week or this month, I think the market is cheap and it will turn.
ANDREW SCHWARTZ

One of the more likely exit scenarios here is a sale. We're not necessarily committed to sell the bu...
ANDREW SCHWARTZ

The companys not going away.
ANDREW SCHWARTZ

The company's not going away.
ANDREW SCHWARTZ

A lot of what I do is running businesses rather than buying stocks. My worst decision is probably wh...
GERRY SCHWARTZ

Like a comet pulled from orbit,
As it passes a sun.
Like a stream that meets a boulder, ...
STEPHEN SCHWARTZ

So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're bus...
MORRIE SCHWARTZ

I'm a real food know-it-all.
ARTHUR SCHWARTZ

I jokingly refer to the word "gourmet" as the "g" word.
ARTHUR SCHWARTZ

I don't like to use 'gourmet' because it has become so overused and abused.
ARTHUR SCHWARTZ

For the most part this is a place to find down-to-earth advice on everyday cooking, eating, food sho...
ARTHUR SCHWARTZ

The immediate consequence ... is that they would have to close. They would have to get rid of the en...
ARTHUR SCHWARTZ

What I love about Brooklyn is there are more wonderful little joints than anywhere.
ARTHUR SCHWARTZ

Sentiment doesn't bring people in. It can't stand forever. Tear it down.
ARTHUR SCHWARTZ

We are thrilled to have Wilson participate in this prestigious event. The Boston Open is recognized ...
ARTHUR SCHWARTZ

We're seeing an increase in confirmed robberies where the perpetrator is taking a victim's credit ca...
ANNE SCHWARTZ

We're not sure if she was restrained or not, but, nevertheless, she shouldn't have been in the front...
ANNE SCHWARTZ

Everything was very peaceful. It was a well-behaved crowd.
ANNE SCHWARTZ

Now we're going back and doing good old fashioned police work; sitting down, talking to people, havi...
ANNE SCHWARTZ

So far all the leads have lead to dead ends.
ANNE SCHWARTZ

There are many cases where there is no notice and consent. There are others where there is deceptive...
ARI SCHWARTZ

The civil liberties board is supposed to be the first contact for the president to talk about privac...
ARI SCHWARTZ

It's too early to say whether an Internet privacy bill will be passed this year. It depends on other...
ARI SCHWARTZ

It's too early to say whether an Internet privacy bill will be passed this year,
ARI SCHWARTZ

This subpoena is really overreaching and outrageous.
ARI SCHWARTZ

Seems as though it takes a violation of peoples' privacy to make people pay attention.
ARI SCHWARTZ

We think companies should be pushing back. They're only going to be asked for more. These things are...
ARI SCHWARTZ

There is a question of how secure you can make any e-mail system, ... especially if people are tryin...
ARI SCHWARTZ

Privacy is a gray area when it comes to information access on the Internet, ... And the grayest area...
ARI SCHWARTZ

Privacy is a gray area when it comes to information access on the Internet. And the grayest areas of...
ARI SCHWARTZ

Most people are good people, ... Some of them are trapped in their neighborhoods and they're afraid.
ANNE SCHWARTZ

He was very cooperative,
ANNE SCHWARTZ

We have tremendous resources expended to look for these boys. There is virtually no stone we have le...
ANNE SCHWARTZ

Instead of moving, they surrounded the vehicle.
ANNE SCHWARTZ

In the last month, ... we've had homicides over the remote, over a dress - you are wearing my brown ...
ANNE SCHWARTZ

My colleagues, hardworking Americans are looking to Congress to take immediate action and meaningful...
ALLYSON SCHWARTZ

Last year, customs officials screened only five percent of the 11 million cargo containers entering ...
ALLYSON SCHWARTZ

Iran's continued pursuit of nuclear weapons, support for international terrorist organizations, and ...
ALLYSON SCHWARTZ

In Congress, I am a strong supporter of the New Apollo Energy Act. This plan would help to establish...
ALLYSON SCHWARTZ

I represent the Port of Philadelphia, and I know firsthand the important role that ports play in the...
ALLYSON SCHWARTZ

I applaud the American Cancer Society for all they do to eradicate smoking. Their local, state and n...
ALLYSON SCHWARTZ

As many know, brain injury comes in many forms. The two most prevalent brain injuries - stroke and t...
ALLYSON SCHWARTZ

And as you point out, for American families who struggle every day to figure out how do they pay, we...
ALLYSON SCHWARTZ

All told, these profit levels have put the world's five largest publicly traded oil companies on tra...
ALLYSON SCHWARTZ

The attacks in Jordan, just like those before it in Indonesia, Egypt, Spain and the United States, d...
ALLYSON SCHWARTZ

The evidence of a Jewish civilization going back more than two millennia is overwhelmingly borne out...
JACK SCHWARTZ

Government experts have estimated that ANWR reserves would only provide enough oil for six months of...
ALLYSON SCHWARTZ

Simply put, drilling in ANWR would be expensive, environmentally devastating, and would do very litt...
ALLYSON SCHWARTZ

The best way to deal with that is to live in a fully conscious, compassionate, loving way. Don't...
MORRIE SCHWARTZ

The Diet Mentality has come about because there is agreement in our society that the only way to los...
BOB SCHWARTZ

Not only don't diets work, they're actually designed to fail. It's not you or your lack of will powe...
BOB SCHWARTZ

They kill them; you gave them the alcohol, that makes you a murderer as well.
BOB SCHWARTZ

What we're trying to figure out is how we can use [information] and shape it and translate it back i...
BOB SCHWARTZ

Now you need a much broader view.
BOB SCHWARTZ

We're working in support of the other effort. They had a stronger coalition. We felt they had a much...
BOB SCHWARTZ

We always stock up for the new year. I wouldn't say we double our inventory but we do increase it by...
BOB SCHWARTZ

This is not sour grapes. This is a person who lost a contest by misinformation.
BOB SCHWARTZ

It's important to note that the initiative provides an exemption for small businesses. It's also bee...
BOB SCHWARTZ

If your kids don't need to go door to door trick or treating this year, they probably shouldn't. If ...
BILL SCHWARTZ

It's confirmed. There's going to be an announcement of the decision tomorrow sometime, probably in t...
BILL SCHWARTZ

We've had no violence here. Let's keep it that way.
BILL SCHWARTZ

We're not going to let anyone get hurt. We're not going to let the streets be taken over by a mob.
BILL SCHWARTZ

We're not going to permit it.
BILL SCHWARTZ

He shot the front of the house, through the windows, through the walls, walking back and forth in fr...
BILL SCHWARTZ

It's way too soon to know whether this was drug related, whether this was some sort of retaliation f...
BILL SCHWARTZ

When my grandparents came to this country in the early part of the 20th century, they came from thre...
BILL SCHWARTZ

In spite of crossing guards blowing their whistles and waving their hands, (the driver) kept going, ...
BILL SCHWARTZ

The chief is optimistic things will be calm because they were the last time. We don't anticipate any...
BILL SCHWARTZ

We are hoarding potentials so great that they are just about unimaginable.
JACK SCHWARTZ

The metaphor of Exodus is one that has dogged the Jews from the outset. Their very success attracts ...
JACK SCHWARTZ

I always thought baseball would be good for the city, just not at any cost.
CAROL SCHWARTZ

Our competition is only a five minute metro ride or a 10 minute drive away.
CAROL SCHWARTZ

I don't like it, either. But there are 200 [non-smoking] venues in the city I can choose so that I d...
CAROL SCHWARTZ

In my case, the lead and water issue made me support this even more.
CAROL SCHWARTZ

It would very much depend who is mayor. If I was mayor -- and I'm not running, by the way -- I would...
CAROL SCHWARTZ

People will stay home or go where they can smoke. Our competition is a five minute Metro ride away.
CAROL SCHWARTZ

This is a total smoke-free bill, not a compromise that would balance the various interests I had hop...
CAROL SCHWARTZ

I really felt all along we should have been involved, and was taken aback that we were not. I think ...
CAROL SCHWARTZ

Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find ...
DAVID SCHWARTZ

The disappearance of the Jewish state will not mean the disappearance of anti-Semitism.
JACK SCHWARTZ

Muslim delegates concerned about rights in Palestine could have brought their enthusiasm closer to h...
JACK SCHWARTZ

Do you prefer Mitch, or is Mitchell better?
MORRIE SCHWARTZ

Without love, we are birds with broken wings.
MORRIE SCHWARTZ

Learn how to live, and you'll know how to die; learn how to die, and you'll learn how to live.
MORRIE SCHWARTZ

How come you didn't call me Coach?
MORRIE SCHWARTZ

The little things, I can obey. But the big things - how we think, what we value - those you must cho...
MORRIE SCHWARTZ

Anything not worth doing is worth not doing well. Think about it.
ELIAS SCHWARTZ

Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever go...
MORRIE SCHWARTZ

Once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.
MORRIE SCHWARTZ

Death ends a life, not a relationship.
MORRIE SCHWARTZ

The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.
MORRIE SCHWARTZ

The little things, I can obey. But the big things - how we think, what we value - those you must cho...
MORRIE SCHWARTZ

The shape of our lives is defined by our insertion into institutions and systems whose interlocking ...
DAVID SCHWARTZ

He raised his hand and said his plan was to have his 14-year-old grandson take it over. But he hadn'...
STEVE SCHWARTZ

It also happened to be an amazingly beautiful poster, that added to the piece. And the condition was...
MICHAEL SCHWARTZ

When you look at it that way, you can see how absurd it is that we individualize ourselves with our ...
MORRIE SCHWARTZ

The 20th century taught us how far unbridled evil can and will go when the world fails to confront i...
ALLYSON SCHWARTZ

All told, these profit levels have put the world's five largest publicly traded oil companies on...
ALLYSON SCHWARTZ

I own all the characters I created, thanks to the Writers Guild, so nobody can do anything without m...
SHERWOOD SCHWARTZ

In the best of all possible worlds, February 14 is a pleasant and sentimental opportunity to lavish ...
PEPPER SCHWARTZ

Fortunately, the products we use for common rust in beans are quite effective against soybean rust a...
HOWARD SCHWARTZ

I jokingly refer to the word 'gourmet' as the 'g' word.
ARTHUR SCHWARTZ

For me, living means I can be responsive to the other person. It means I can show my emotions and my...
MORRIE SCHWARTZ

I have the highest regard for (Collins).
JIM SCHWARTZ

Avoid context and specifics; generalize and keep repeating the generalization.
JACK SCHWARTZ

The situation in the West Bank and Gaza involves a military occupation amid urban guerrilla warfare,...
JACK SCHWARTZ

It's my experience that the fluidity of sexuality with younger people is more accepted.
JOSH SCHWARTZ

We don't call it discussing Talmud; we call it arguing Talmud.
LIEBA SCHWARTZ

It's funny: I put money into short films, and I put really good actors in it, and I write some s...
BEN SCHWARTZ

My client has been in jail for 19 months. They so totally have the wrong guy.
MICHAEL SCHWARTZ

Banner has been very good about getting extra help and I think what people will see is a pretty seam...
MICHAEL SCHWARTZ

There's no way they can show she didn't end her own life.
MICHAEL SCHWARTZ

It does fulfill some sort of emotional need that they have to own these items.
MICHAEL SCHWARTZ

When a defendant makes a request for a lawyer, all questioning must stop until a lawyer is on the sc...
MICHAEL SCHWARTZ

A lot of people jump on these items while they're hot and can make a quick profit if they can read t...
MICHAEL SCHWARTZ

There are only a finite number of business activities and ways of measuring them. We can cover almos...
DANIEL SCHWARTZ

There's no recommendation for pay to participate but in the transportation area we may be in a diffe...
JOHN SCHWARTZ

Women may give lip service to wanting husbands who take on an equal role in raising children, but ma...
PEPPER SCHWARTZ

On the surface, 'Book of Mormon' is extremely irreverent, but underneath, there's a grea...
STEPHEN SCHWARTZ

This appeal is about a special pot of government money that cannot be enjoyed by people who don't be...
ADAM SCHWARTZ

No one except for the Boy Scouts can get this extraordinary aid. The government has declared a winne...
ADAM SCHWARTZ

We think it's a step backward in terms of the protection of privacy intended by Congress by the pass...
ADAM SCHWARTZ

The Arab representatives and their followers were not interested in the persecuted millions througho...
JACK SCHWARTZ

The Jew is at once alienated and indestructible; he is in exile from his own country and in exile ev...
DELMORE SCHWARTZ

And Goodness knows
The Wicked's lives are lonely
Goodness knows
The Wicked die alo...
STEPHEN SCHWARTZ

Are people born wicked, or is wickedness trust upon them?
STEPHEN SCHWARTZ

It's just life, so keep dancing through.
STEPHEN SCHWARTZ

Some things I cannot change, but 'til I try I'll never know.
STEPHEN SCHWARTZ

Here Lies Julius Schwartz. He met his last deadline.
JULIUS SCHWARTZ

Without a Jewish state, the iron truth of history is that the Jewish people sooner or later become e...
JACK SCHWARTZ

Writers would submit scripts to me, and if I liked one well enough to submit to magazine editors, I ...
JULIUS SCHWARTZ

In an undergraduate business environment, the best learning experience is the interaction students h...
GERRY SCHWARTZ

He ran on this issue. He won on this issue, particularly in the outer suburbs including Loudoun and ...
STEWART SCHWARTZ

In the Middle Ages and beyond, the target was the Court Jew who had the ear of the ruler; during the...
JACK SCHWARTZ

When everybody is euphoric it's usually a sign that the market is about to run out of steam.
DAVID SCHWARTZ

It's very hard to pass along those costs to our customers. It's just something you have to absorb. B...
RICHARD SCHWARTZ

I've heard it said that people come into our lives for a reason
Bringing something we must lear...
STEPHEN SCHWARTZ

We already assume we have competitive products. But then there's our top line revenue, margin expens...
JONATHAN SCHWARTZ

The bear is either trapped or transplanted because it's causing problems or in some situations it ma...
CHUCK SCHWARTZ

The radiation would be so lethal they would get a lethal dose in minutes.
STEPHEN SCHWARTZ

It was like Burns and Allen, and any twosome really. They fed off each other with physical stuff and...
SHERWOOD SCHWARTZ

I don't think there's anything here for me to be concerned about.
BERNARD SCHWARTZ

The demand for satellite services is huge and growing. It is the most cost-effective method of exten...
BERNARD SCHWARTZ

[Schwartz vowed to cooperate with congressional and Justice Department investigations.] And as far a...
BERNARD SCHWARTZ

no 'secret' or 'classified' information was ever discussed with the Chinese or included in any repor...
BERNARD SCHWARTZ

I can open any door I want as chairman of a $6 billion company,
BERNARD SCHWARTZ

The most important thing is to learn that good enough is almost always good enough; you don't need to find the best. You'll be happier if, once you find something that meets your standards, you stop looking and don't worry about it.

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The most important thing is to learn that good enough is almost always good enough; you don't need to find the best. You'll be happier if, once you find something that meets your standards, you stop looking and don't worry about it.

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