Quotes About Speculation

Never pay attention to the rumors and what they assume

With science fiction I think we are preparing ourselves for contact with them, whoever they may be.

All of life is a wager

Do radioactive cats have eighteen half-lives?

While I am flattered about the speculation of being enticed out of retirement, I'm happy with life as a bad golfer!

Most areas of intellectual life have discovered the virtues of speculation, and have embraced them wildly. In academia, speculation is usually dignified as theory.

[My study of the universe] leaves little doubt that life has occurred on other planets. I doubt if the human race is the most intelligent form of life.

The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition of a higher order than our own is one that soothes all children, and many writers.

The people who are buying stocks because they're going up and they don't know what they do deserve to lose money.

I don't rightly know. It just ain't possible to explain some things, maybe even most things. It's interesting to wonder on them and do some speculation, but the main thing is you have to accept it - take it for what it is, and get on with your getting." (91)

In betting and gambling games if you stop acting and do nothing, the losses will stop. But when investing, trading, or speculating, if you're losing and stop acting, the losses don't stop; they can continue to grow almost indefinitely.

then speculating, and therefore having a plan, is the only way to deal with the uncertainty of the future in the markets. Given this definition, for the remainder of the book Speculator (capitalized) will be used to include investors, speculators, and traders, all of whom are Speculating.

The sequence of thinking before acting is the exact definition of the word plan. Therefore, speculating and planning are the same thing. A plan allows you to speculate with a long time horizon (as an investor), a short time horizon (as a trader), or on a spread relationship (as a basis trader or hedger).

In order to be speculating, by definition you must have a plan.

Once you specify what price or under what circumstances you would no longer want the position, and specify how much money you are willing to lose, then, and only then, can you start thinking about where to enter the market.

One of the things I've always liked about science fiction is the way it makes you think about things, and look at things from angles you'd never have thought about before.

Without heads, where might they keep their minds, if they have them?" Kebes put in. "In their livers, obviously," Sokrates said.

Hypothetical questions get hypothetical answers.

Never having been dead, it was merely speculation.

Some too, would make mention of the actual word 'rumour', as in 'Rumour says', before going on to personify rumour, as if it wasn't they who were launching or perpetuating Rumour themselves.

Science fiction is becoming more of a diverse kind of genre.

Rumors often reflect the wishes of others.

Here's a secret: All guesses are educated guesses because there is almost no estimate you could make about which you literally know nothing.

With a lot of projects, you never know if it's going to be executed properly. And also, you never know if people are going to respond to it.