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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
favors farming farmers
How will you know a good farmer when you meet him? He will not ask you for any favors. Jane Smiley
favors greener solutions
I'm in favor of anything that promotes greener solutions. Chiwetel Ejiofor
favors immigration restaurants
I'm in favor of liberalizing immigration because of the effect it would have on restaurants. I'd let just about everybody in except the English. Calvin Trillin
favors fortune audacious
Fortune favors the audacious. Desiderius Erasmus
favors fortune owed pleasures remember sweetest taste
May you taste the sweetest pleasures that fortune ere bestowed, and may all your friends remember all the favors you are owed Anonymous Toast
favors discrimination bases
I favor access to discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. Edward Kennedy
favors want ifs
If you want to make a friend, let someone do you a favor. Benjamin Franklin
favors facts resentment
You don't get somebody to like you by doing them a favor. That only tends to build resentment over the fact that they are needy and you are not. No, you ask them to do you a favor. Benjamin Franklin
favors being-a-woman young
When you find Fortune favorable, stride boldly forward, for she favors the bold, and being a woman, the young. Baltasar Gracian
slips
I try to write as serious as possible, and then a joke slips in. Jeff Lindsay