Quotes About Speculation

Antes de lanzarse a una incursión de ese tipo, el inversor debería estar seguro de sí mismo y de sus asesores, en especial a la hora de determinar si tienen una clara concepción de las diferencias existentes entre la inversión y la especulación y entre el precio de mercado y el valor subyacente.

también existe la posibilidad más probable de que vayamos a ser testigos de otro gran aumento especulativo en el valor de mercado que no tenga una justificación real en los valores subyacentes.

The new-era doctrine - that good stocks (or blue chips) were sound investments regardless of how high the price paid for them - was at the bottom only a means of rationalizing under the title of investment the well-nigh universal capitulation to the gambling fever/

The speculative public is incorrigible. In financial terms it cannot count beyond 3.

The longer the bull market lasts the more severely investors will be affected with amnesia; after five years or so, many people no longer believe that bear markets are possible. p.190

Arrows of insight have to be winged by the feathers of speculation.

To such a man [without philosophy] the world tends to become definite, finite, and obvious; common objects rouse no questions, and unfamiliar possibilities are contemptuously rejected.

My last two years at Buffalo, I've had so many trade requests. Rumors every year.

When you buy anything with lots of leverage, it does not require a whole lot to go wrong to lose it all.

The way I usually put it is that as an SF writer, I'm never required to be right.

I was never close to signing for Manchester United, no.

Most science fiction, quite frankly, is silly nonsense.

On that question Henry kept his opinion to himself. It was all speculation anyway. People were going to do what they were going to do. After a certain age he'd ceased to believe he might influence their lives.

from that first moment of inspiration to write this story, I felt the importance of imagining a married Jesus. Doing so provokes a fascinating question: How would the Western world be different if Jesus had married and his wife had been included in his story? There are only speculative answers, but it seems plausible that Christianity and the Western world would have had a somewhat different religious and cultural inheritance. Perhaps women would have found more egalitarianism.

In many cases, I'm sure that no harmful intent existed, but speculating on intent is a waste of time. It's the results that count. If harm was done by inadequate parents, the intent is irrelevant. Inadequate parents are responsible both for what they did do and for what they didn't.

If you want to know, you need to ask her. Speculation will only lead to trouble.

And all the nursemaids and kitchen maids I ever knew when I was a child, always had a aunt, who knew a woman, whose first cousin's boy had been put into just such a box, and had never been seen again.

An alien spacecraft. I'm sure of it." "…craft?…

no more dangerous whim, than the speculation over roads not taken. •

To assume is to presume.

But everything that never was is also a thing that might have been – and such a thing has more existence than you or I, for it has a thousand potential existences, and we have only the one we were born to. And of all those possibilities, what could be more fantastical a transformation?

science fiction is not about the future but about the possibilities inherent in the present.

There were always whispers. And whispers, if left unchecked, could quickly grow into roars.

My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there is.