Quotes About Analysis

A negotiator should observe everything. You must be part Sherlock Holmes, part Sigmund Freud.

In selling as in medicine, prescription before diagnosis is malpractice.

There is no surer way to misread any document than to read it literally.

If you torture statistics long enough, they'll eventually confess the truth

I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts and grinding out conclusions.

Before it can be solved, a problem must be clearly defined.

It is often wonderful how putting down on paper a clear statement of a case helps one to see, not perhaps the way out, but the way in.

Someone created the box score, and he should be shot.

A critic is one who leaves no turn unstoned.

Before you build a better mousetrap, it helps to know if there are any mice out there.

Whoever wants to accomplish great things must devote to a lot of profound thought to details.

The term numinous is like the terms substance, meaning, being, and a host of other terms; in the final analysis we can only define them in terms of themselves.

History is furious debate informed by evidence and reason.

Critical thinking requires assembling data to back up one's opinion. Otherwise students may falsely conclude that all opinions are somehow equal.

I have since wondered if a person can know how deep a thing goes without getting outside of it, without taking it apart, without, in fact, ruining it.

Anthropology was the science that gave her the platform from which she surveyed, scolded and beamed at the world.

How can children bombarded from birth by noise, frenetic schedules, and the helter-skelter caretaking of a fast-paced adult world learn to analyze, reflect, ponder? How can they use quiet inner conversation to build personal realities, sharpen and extend their visual reasoning?

English majors understand human nature better than economists do.

However, not even science could account for all the variables that people introduced to the equation.

Garza narrowed his eyes, then leaned back in his

Back in 1993, he said, "An orangutan could figure out that the stock is selling miles above the value of the company if it were liquidated. I keep telling people this, but they keep buying the stock."24

The game of investing is one of making better predictions about the future than other people. How are you going to do that? One way is to limit your tries to areas of competence. If you try to predict the future of everything, you attempt too much. You're going to fail through lack of specialization.1 Charlie Munger

Follow sound business trends, not fashion trends.

We don't want reactions. We don't want first impressions. We don't want knee-jerks. We want considered feedback. Read it over. Read it twice, three times even. Sleep on it. Take your time to gather and present your thoughts—just like the person who pitched the original idea took their time to gather and present theirs.