"If you're a short-seller, that's a cacophony of negative reinforcement. You're basically told that you're wrong in every way imaginable every day. It takes a certain type of individual to drown that noise and negative reinforcement out and to remind oneself that their work is accurate and what they're hearing is not."

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Source : "Interview with Jim Chanos". Graham & Doddsville, a Columbia Business School investment newsletter,

James Chanos

#Negative Quotes #Cacophony Quotes #Noise Quotes

“Twisted and perverse are the ways of the human mind," Jane intoned. "Pinocchio was such a dolt to try to become a real boy. He was much better off with a wooden head.”
“It's crucial to keep in mind that the hundreds of millions of dollars now spent on prescription drug advertisements are ultimately paid for by consumers in the form a higher drug prices.”
“It is really hard for me to invest time into a relationship because I get kind of freaked out by the thought of doing something that part of my mind keeps telling me is "unproductive".”
“You only get one life. It's actually your duty to live it as fully as possible.”

Source : FaceBook post by Jojo Moyes from Mar 05, 2013
“Every morning, just like in Alabama, I got up with the sun, ate my breakfast even before my mother and sisters and brothers, and went to school, winter, spring, and fall alike to run and jump and bend my body this way and that for Mr. Charles Riley.”
“[Jack Johnson] became a superstar and started his own record label, and then he made and produced my first record, he co-wrote the songs on there, and then he let me open up for him for two years all around the world. And that was like the best start I could've had, the best way I could've started in the music scene.”
“Well, where there is freedom doubt itself must be free.”

Source : Garet Garrett (1965). “The People's Pottage”
“We find the Works of Nature still more pleasant, the more they resemble those of art.”

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