"The best strategy is one that offers the highest compound return consistent with no risk of going broke."

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Source : William Poundstone (2010). “Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street”, p.69, Macmillan

William Poundstone

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“Life is one big minefield, and the only place that isn't a minefield is the place they make the mines.”
“I love cooking for myself and cooking for my family.”
“There is nobody that's ever going to fill Ted Kennedy's shoes, and that's a tall order for somebody in the family to try to live up to.”

Source : "Remembering Senator Edward Kennedy; School Bus Cuts Nationwide; More Banks in Big Trouble". "CNN Newsroom", edition.cnn.com. August 27, 2009.
“The big political news, Arnold Schwarzenegger announced he's running for governor of California, and already, people are chanting, 'Four more vowels, four more vowels.”
“I'm aware that, if you feel down, it can be strangely unrelated to circumstances around you. That's just the way life is.”
“We had played a kid's version of gang fighting called "Civil War," and then later we had got in on the real thing, we fought with chains and we fought barefisted and we fought Socs and we fought other grease gangs. It was a normal childhood.”
“Writing is the same as music. Itâ€™s in how you phrase it, how you hold back the note, bend it, shape it, then release it. And what you donâ€™t play is as important as what you do say.”
“The ultimate crime is not to care.”

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