"The average person canâ€™t really trust anybody. They canâ€™t trust a broker, because the broker is interested in churning commissions. They canâ€™t trust a mutual fund, because the mutual fund is interested in gathering a lot of assets and keeping them. And now itâ€™s even worse because even the most sophisticated people have no idea whatâ€™s going on."

-- Seth Klarman

#Average Quotes #Ideas Quotes #People Quotes

“Appeal can't happen until I've been sentenced.”

Source : Source: www.wherestherage.com
“One of the laws of nature," Gordon said, "is that half the people have got to be below average.""For a Gaussian distribution, yeah," Cooper said. "Sad, though.”

Source : Gregory Benford (2010). “Timescape”, p.234, Spectra
“Ideas are abundant. Practice giving your ideas away. If you hold onto ideas too tightly, you can convince people (and yourself) that you may not come up with any new ones”
“I am not a patient person. My friends and colleagues will confirm this. But, frankly, we should all feel a little more impatient with the state of public education in America today.”
“I don't sit in the corner waiting for death: death has to pursue me. I'm going strong. I hope to reach 100 and ask for an extension, just like my grandmother did.”
“Rationality tied to moral decency is the most powerful joint instrument for good that our planet has ever known.”
“The assumption is that your personal life has to be a mess to create, but how much chaos can you allow in before it takes over?”
“I think the collectors have made an enormous contribution, not only to the market but to painters themselves... These people that buy, that set standards, make everyone else itch to emulate.”

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