"One must give up the fantasy of a perspicacious gunslinger/investor outwitting the market."

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Source : John Allen Paulos (2007). “A Mathematician Plays The Stock Market”, p.60, Basic Books

John Allen Paulos

#Giving Up Quotes #Fantasy Quotes #Outwitting Quotes

“The danger lies in unconventional experiments signaling for a general license to do as they please, and pass off sloppy workmanship as creative intention.”
“The crown of life is neither happiness nor annihilation; it is understanding.”

Source : Winifred Holtby (2007). “Virginia Woolf: A Critical Memoir”, Bloomsbury Academic
“Memory warps time, as it does the sights and sounds and smells of reality; for what shapes it is emotion, which can twist what seems clear, just as the surface of a pond seems to bend the stick thrust into the water.”

Source : Sherwood Smith (1997). “Crown Duel”, p.182, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Me, I'm dishonest, and you can always trust a dishonest man to be dishonest. Honestly, it's the honest ones you have to watch out for.”
“Radio is a bag of mediocrity where little men with carbon minds wallow in sluice of their own making.”
“Life can change your directions, even when you ain't planned it. All you can do is handle it, worst thing you can do is panic.”
“I think it was right to remove Saddam Hussein. I think it was the right decision then and I still think it was right now.”
“Life is cruel. Why should the afterlife be any different!”

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