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odds errors safety
No matter how careful you are, the one risk no investor can ever eliminate is the risk of being wrong. Only by insisting on what Graham called the "margin of safety" - never overpaying, no matter how exciting an investment seems to be - can you minimize your odds of error. Benjamin Graham
odds long actors
I'm always happy when actors get rich, because the odds on it are so long! Bill Nighy
odds house graves
I won’t bet $100 against house odds between now and the grave. Charlie Munger
odds law ideas
I know how to take good ideas and turn them into sensible law at great odds. Elizabeth Emken
odds generations stories
The bottom line: if you want a happier family, create, refine and retell the story of your family's positive moments and your ability to bounce back from the difficult ones. That act alone may increase the odds that your family will thrive for many generations to come. Bruce Feiler
odds patterns principles
The Heisenberg principle - If something is closely observed, the odds are it is going to be altered in the process. The more a price pattern is observed by speculators the more prone you have false signals; the more the market is a product of nonspeculative activity, the greater the significance of technical breakout Bruce Kovner
odds race survival
The human race may well become extinct before the end of the century. Speaking as a mathematician, I should say the odds are about three to one against survival. Bertrand Russell
odds swear truth
Odds life! must one swear to the truth of a song? Matthew Prior
odds three win
There are no secrets. We know what they like to do, they know what we like to do. We play them three times, and the odds are that we win at least one of those. John Wilson
dumb words-of-wisdom injustice-and-oppression
Thus, cases of injustice, and oppression, and tyranny, and the most extravagant bigotry, are in constant occurrence among us every day. It is the custom to trumpet forth much wonder and astonishment at the chief actors therein setting at defiance so completely the opinion of the world; but there is no greater fallacy; it is precisely because they do consult the opinion of their own little world that such things take place at all, and strike the great world dumb with amazement. Charles Dickens
dumb dumb-questions underestimate
Never underestimate a dumb question. Brandon Boyd
dumb lust mind
It was one of God's jokes that such a dumb mind had been put in such an eloquent body. Charlaine Harris
dumb question
The only dumb question is the one you don't ask. Phil Bass
dumb canada geography
I get to go to overseas places, like Canada. Britney Spears
dumb important needs
We don't need to dumb down our stuff. And it's important to know how far we can push readers. Ashwin Sanghi
dumb proposal work
This proposal is to dumb down the work force.
dumb acquisition credit
The beauty of a financial institution is that there are a lot of ways to go to hell in a bucket. You can push credit too far, do a dumb acquisition, leverage yourself excessively - it's not just derivatives [that can bring about your downfall].
dumb speak blind
The music speaks to you every day, but you are too deaf, dumb, and blind to even listen to the music. You are too deaf, dumb, and blind to stop what you are doing. Charles Manson
challenges flaw mistake player stick
When you're young like that, you just have to stick to those things that you do really, really well. With a player like that, it's never a mistake or a flaw in his game, it's just about how he harnesses it and challenges it. Darryl Sutter
challenges pilots tests
Then there was the challenge to keep doing better and better, to fly the best test flight that anybody had ever flown. That led to my being recognized as one of the more experienced test pilots, and that led to the astronaut business. Alan Shepard
challenges problem failing
If you're not failing 90% of the time, then you're probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems. Alan Kay
challenges consumers excuse good low millions people resources
There are a lot of challenges for people who are low income. There are significant resources being put in by drug companies, and millions of consumers are benefiting from these programs. This is just a good excuse for them to get out of those programs.
challenges contest determined difficult economic employees environment face industry intense none people proven rapid undergoing
The people of HP can execute, and they've proven it. Think about the challenges these employees have had to face up to and overcome: a very difficult economic environment worldwide; an industry undergoing a rapid transformation; intense competition; and a distracting proxy contest that none of us could have predicted, but one that we are determined to win. Carly Fiorina
challenges succeed i-have-learned
I have learned a great truth of life. We do not succeed in spite of our challenges and difficulties, but rather, precisely because of them. Richard Paul Evans
challenges everybody
Everybody has their challenges; I couldn't say that we have more challenges than other people, they're just different. Tracy Pollan
challenges soul path
Sometimes the most evolved souls take the most challenging paths Brian Weiss
challenges hiv sticks
The challenges surrounding HIV and AIDS are getting more complex and mature, and we just can't stick our heads in the sand and say 'it can't happen to me.' Brande Roderick