"We ignore outlooks and forecasts... we're lousy at it and we admit it ... everyone else is lousy too, but most people won't admit it."

-- Martin J. Whitman

#People Quotes #Investment Quotes #Outlook Quotes

“Like everyone else who makes the mistake of getting older, I begin each day with coffee and obituaries.”
“The first reason for psychology's failure to understand what people are and how they act, is that clinicians and psychiatrists, who are generally the theoreticians on these matters, have essentially made up myths without any evidence to support them; the second reason for psychology's failure is that personality theory has looked for inner traits when it should have been looking for social context.”
“As much as we may want to withdraw into a world of pure problem solving, we have to acknowledge that the most successful architectures are the ones you can actually convince someone to implement.”

Source : Interview with Erin Malone, October 27, 2002.
“I try to emulate his approach of really get the most out of people by allowing them to experiment and certainly allowing people to make mistakes.”
“The good thing about life is that you can research anywhere you are. I'm just constantly gathering little bits of information all the time. I'm always grabbing something out of the headlines, out of the news or reading a book about astronomy and just trying to figure out how to get my head around the facts but the bigger stress is trying to connect those facts to normal life situations and our relationship with God.”
“The best way to have your people be happy and satisfied is to earn the right to have them come back to work for you the next day, knowing that there are tons of other places.”
“I do ballads that say what every man wants to say and that every woman wants to hear, or I do songs about social issues.”
“The mathematician who pursues his studies without clear views of this matter, must often have the uncomfortable feeling that his paper and pencil surpass him in intelligence.”

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