Quotes About Evaluation

To guess what to keep and what to throw away takes considerable skill. Actually it is probably merely a matter of luck, but it looks as if it takes considerable skill.

The FEAR OF CRITICISM is at the bottom of the destruction of most ideas which never reach the PLANNING and ACTION stage.

SELFANALYSIS TEST QUESTIONS

Sería muy útil que todo aquel que lea este libro haga un inventario de sus bienes intangibles. Un inventario así podría revelar algunas posesiones invaluables.

The only way for you to really know how your voice sounds to others is to record yourself. You will likely be surprised by how different it sounds when you hear it played back. Analyze the recording to find where and how you could make improvements. Note the tone, the pitch, and the rhythm of your speech patterns. Do your words flow smoothly, or do you stop and start and interrupt yourself with ums and ahs? Just by hearing yourself you will be able to make many improvements.

But this argument is found to be defective when examined in its effects and consequences.

TAKE INVENTORY OF YOURSELF 28 QUESTIONS YOU SHOULD ANSWER

The one thing that separates the sheep from the goats, and success from failure, is the ability to analyze, study and weigh problems for yourself, and to make decisions for yourself.

Before you even start to negotiate for a readjustment of your salary in your present position, or to seek employment elsewhere, Be sure that you are worth more than you now receive.

A mistake is not something to be determined after the fact, but in light of the information available until that point

I suspect the I.Q., SAT, and school grades are tests designed by nerds so they can get high scores in order to call each other intelligent...Smart and wise people who score low on IQ tests, or patently intellectually defective ones, like the former U.S. president George W. Bush, who score high on them (130), are testing the test and not the reverse.

To understand how something works, figure out how to break it.

The quality of a decision cannot be solely judged based on its outcome.

No, businessmen as risk takers are not subjected to the judgment of other businessmen, only to that of their personal accountant.

one cannot judge a performance in any given field (war, politics, medicine, investments) by the results, but by the costs of the alternative (i.e., if history played out in a different way).

Rank beliefs not by their plausibility but by how much harm they might cause

A mistake is not something to be determined after the fact, but in the light of the information until that point.

Know how to rank your beliefs not according to their plausibility but by the harm they may cause.

I believe that forcing researchers to eat their own cooking whenever possible solves a serious problem in science.

And as an essayist, I am not judged by other writers, book editors, and book reviewers, but by readers. Readers? Maybe, but wait a minute…not today's readers. Only those of tomorrow, and the day after tomorrow. So, my only real judge being time, it is the stability and robustness of the readership (that is, future readers) that counts.

Hire the successful trader, conditional on a solid track record, whose details you can understand the least.

Makridakis and Hibon reached the sad conclusion that statistically sophisticated or complex methods do not necessarily provide more accurate forecasts than simpler ones.

Wittgenstein's ruler: Unless you have confidence in the ruler's reliability, if you use a ruler to measure a table you may also be using the table to measure the ruler. The less you trust a ruler's reliability (in probability called the prior), the more information you are getting about the ruler and the less about the table.

Don't tell me what you "think," just tell me what's in your portfolio.