Quotes About Speculation

The worst thing about talk ... is that there's no way to lay it to rest. Every fresh breeze brings a new speculation.

When the deaths first started increasing, there were all sorts of rumors. From defective childhood vaccines to pesticides in our food—people grasped for any excuse.

I think about death all the time. I know there's nothing out there, but I'm curious. There's a 300 billion-to-one chance that there might be an energy that goes somewhere else, but I doubt it.

I think obviously there is some kind of life form somewhere else. Whether it looks like the creature in 'Alien Autopsy,' I'm not sure.

Because people don't see me around a lot, I'm the source of all sorts of rumour.

I believe that there may be intelligent life on other planets.

You can't plan for the future, because some guy's going to land in a spaceship with three heads and a big beak and take over everything.

This high-yield market resembles a nap on a railway track.

The difference between a trader and an investor lies in the duration of the bet, and the corresponding size. There

Forecasting (in words) bears no relation to speculation (in deeds).

Your mind keeps playing alternative scenarios branching out of a main tree:

The dip in the market was not very large. It was just that his leverage was enormous.

how rich you'd be today had you liquidated your portfolio at the height of the NASDAQ bubble).

Capitalism cannot avoid fads and bubbles. Equity bubbles (as in 2000) have proved to be mild; debt bubbles are vicious.

when you have a very limited loss you need to get as aggressive, as speculative, and sometimes as "unreasonable" as you can be.

You can project a continuation into the future.

It is remarkable, that persons who speculate the most boldly often conform with the most perfect quietude to the external regulations of society. The thoughts alone suffice them, without investing itself in the flesh and blood of action.

But Hester Prynne, with a mind of native courage and activity, and for so long a period not merely estranged, but outlawed, from society, had habituated herself to such latitude of speculation as was altogether foreign to the clergyman. She had wandered, without rule or guidance, in a moral wilderness [...]

It is remarkable that persons who speculate the most boldly often conform with the most perfect quietude to the external regulations of society.

A tendency to speculation, though it may keep woman quiet, as it does man, yet makes her sad. She discerns, it may be, such a hopeless task before her.

Indeed, the same dark question often rose into her mind, with reference to the whole race of womanhood. Was existence worth accepting even to the happiest among them? As concerned her own individual existence, she had long ago decided in the negative, and dismissed the point as settled. A tendency to speculation, though it may keep woman quiet, as it does man, yet makes her sad.

It is remarkable, that persons who speculate the most boldly often conform with the most quietude to the external regulations of society. The thought suffices them, without investing itself in the flesh and blood of action

The biological anthropologist Stephen McGarvey has speculated that the people who survived these voyages tended to have a higher percentage of body fat before the voyage began and/or more efficient metabolisms, allowing them to live longer on less food than their thinner companions. (McGarvey theorizes that this is why modern-day Polynesians suffer from a high incidence of obesity.)

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.