Quotes About Analysis

the balance sheet is the company's thermometer. It lets you know whether you're healthy or not.

WARNING: DON'T ACCEPT ANY NUMBER AT FACE VALUE. Numbers are not magical, and they aren't sacred.

Schwatzendale pulled at his chin. He mused. "There is stuff here which requires sober over-thinking." Moncrief waved away the idea. "No need! I have done all necessary thinking. The scheme is excellent!

Reducing a complex problem to a simple chart excited the

I can see patterns in events, and behaviors; in mathematics, I follow slower

By thinking globally I can analyze all phenomena, but when it comes to acting, it can only be local and on a grassroots level if it is to be honest, realistic, and authentic.

I read all the books they like and have spoken publicly about. I read all the analysis on the books so I can discuss it with them. I read all of their books. I read about people they've previously mentored and what happened.

A leader listens to the good reason closely to try and figure out what the real reason is, and then comes up with a solution.

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You absolutely cannot make a series of good decisions without first confronting the brutal facts. The good-to-great companies operated

You absolutely cannot make a series of good decisions without first confronting the brutal facts. The good-to-great companies operated in accordance with this principle, and the comparison companies generally did not.

Edward Tufte shows in his book Visual Explanations

I don't want to start speculating. First we need facts." I

Pattern, as he saw it, equals redundancy. In ordinary language, redundancy serves as an aid to understanding. In cryptanalysis, that same redundancy is the Achilles' heel.

If you have an intuition of something but no hard evidence to back it up, you might kind of sort of go about putting that intuition into practice, because there's still some uncertainty if it's right or wrong.

Uncertainty is a very good thing: it's the beginning of an investigation, and the investigation should never end.

That economic decisions are made without certain knowledge of the consequences is pretty self-evident. But, although many economists were aware of this elementary fact, there was no systematic analysis of economic uncertainty until about 1950.

There is something about the mindset of a scientist that is different - an awareness of uncertainty, modeling, proof.

I'm uncomfortable with the focus on the poet and not on the poem.

I feel very uncomfortable with respect to looking at inflation.

The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind.

The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses.

All psychological research is completely barred by the interpretations of the psychoanalysts. Everything happens in the unconscious, and I don't know what this unconscious is.

If you want to uncover problems you don't know about, take a few moments and look closely at the areas you haven't examined for a while. I guarantee you problems will be there.