Edgar Fiedler famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers - six if one went to Harvard..
-- Edgar Fiedler

#Business #Different #Answers
If you have to forecast, forecast often..
-- Edgar Fiedler

#Business
The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers..
-- Edgar Fiedler

#Business #Independent #Sheep
Economists state their GNP growth projections to the nearest tenth of a percentage point to prove they have a sense of humor.
-- Edgar Fiedler

#Growth #Statistics #Sense Of Humor
For economist the real world is often a special case.
-- Edgar Fiedler

#Real #Special #World
Forecasters tend to learn less and less about more and more, until in the end they know nothing about everything.
-- Edgar Fiedler

#Knowledge #Ends
When you know absolutely nothing about the topic, make your forecast by asking a carefully selected probability sample of 300 others who don't know the answer either.
-- Edgar Fiedler

#Asking #Answers #Topics

If you are looking for a kindly, well-to-do older gentleman who is no longer interested in sex, take out an ad in The Wall Street Journal.
Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.
You will either step forward into growth or you will step back into safety.
Achievement results from work realizing ambition.
Perhaps worse still is what liberal societies might do to themselves in the face of this new and different threat [of terrorism]. They begin, by small but dangerous increments, to cease to be as liberal as they once were. They begin to restrict their own hard-won rights and freedoms as a protection against the crminial minority who attempt (and as we thus see, by forcing liberty to commit suidcide, succed in doing) to terrorise society.
A news organization has a much different responsibility. I might not be telling you the whole story. I might not be telling you a story in a manner that is properly sophisticated.
I've been recognized very seldom. I think I just look different in person than I do as the character.
The most customer-centric organizations can answer any question by deciding what's best for the customer, without ever having to ask.
Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won't answer the door.
A lot of the questions that anyone would naturally have about their family, you'll get much of the answers for, or at least hints to where it will go, in the future.

Edgar Fiedler famous quotes

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