Quotes About Speculation

think that people may be more careful for a year or two, and then we may see another speculative buildup followed by another crash, and so on until God makes people less greedy.

In the casino, the house always wins. In horse racing, the track always wins. In the Powerball lottery, the state always wins. Investing is no different. In the game of investing, the financial croupiers always win, and investors as a group lose. After the deduction of the costs of investing, beating the stock market is a loser's game.

Mingled vanity and pride appear in this, that when miserable men do seek after God, instead of ascending higher than themselves as they ought to do, they measure him by their own carnal stupidity, and neglecting solid inquiry, fly off to indulge their curiosity in vain speculation.

There is a world of difference between inference and conjecture, and imagination must not roam at the cost of authenticity. Paul

He had never really speculated about this before, since demons came in all shapes and sizes. Indeed, some of them came in more than one shape or size all by themselves, such as O'Dear, the Demon of People Who Look in Mirrors and Think They're Overweight, and his twin, O'Really, the Demon of People Who Look in Mirrors and Think They're Slim When They're Not.

If you find life on Europa [Jupiter's moon], like, what would you call it? Would it be, like, Europeans?

Intelligent life on other planets? I'm not even sure there is on earth!

The best proof of intelligent life in space is that it hasn't come here.

I've been saying for a long time that I'm hoping to find intelligent life in Washington.

I'm an optimist, so I believe in some sort of life after death; I don't know what kind.

There are lots of futurists that spend their whole life trying to figure out who we're going to be in 40, 50, 60, 100 years. That's the great thing about science fiction.

I don't lose a lot of sleep worrying about aliens, but I think it seems possible that there's life forms beyond our solar system.

The amount of speculation surrounding my romantic life is astounding. It's strange how involved people get: invested and angry, really disappointed.

The best proof that there's intelligent life in the universe is that it hasn't come here.

Buy an annuity cheap, and make your life interesting to yourself and everybody else that watches the speculation.

I have no regrets about my life. People ask, "If you had to do it all over again, would you do it differently?" No. That's speculation.

First, you bought something you didn't really understand, so it was no better or worse than throwing a dart into the stock market list.

But the average man doesn't wish to be told that it is a bull or a bear market. What he desires is to be told specifically which particular stock to buy or sell. He wants to get something for nothing. He does not wish to work. He doesn't even wish to have to think. It is too much bother to have to count the money that he picks up from the ground.

I did precisely the wrong thing. The cotton showed me a loss and I kept it. The wheat showed me a profit and I sold it out. Of all the speculative blunders there are few greater than trying to average a losing game. Always sell what shows you a loss and keep what shows you a profit.

You cannot be dead sure of anything in a speculative operation. It was the experience I have just told you that made me add the unexpectable to the unexpected in my list of hazards.

Stocks are manipulated to the highest point possible and then sold to the public on the way down.

The principles of successful stock speculation are based on the supposition that people will continue in the future to make the mistakes that they have made in the past.

It takes a man a long time to learn all the lessons of all his mistakes. They say there are two sides to everything. But there is only one side to the stock market; and it is not the bull side or the bear side, but the right side. It took me longer to get that general principle fixed firmly in my mind than it did most of the more technical phases of the game of stock speculation.

demand imbalances. He believed that stories about speculators' raids were essentially ghost stories that brokers told clients to keep them in the dark