Quotes About Speculation

I'm involved in the stock market, which is fun and, sometimes, very painful.

Who owns the future? This is the question at the heart of every stock market.

The difference between playing the stock market and the horses is that one of the horses must win.

The stock market is overpriced. Everything is overpriced. Junk is king.

If Tung Chee-hwa dies, the stock market will take off.

We had a booming stock market in 1929 and then went into the world's greatest depression. We have a booming stock market in 1999. Will the bubble somehow burst, and then we enter depression? Well, some things are not different.

I will never be in the stock market. It's just gambling. I'm a gambler, but I'll gamble on the practicality of things.

Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.

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

In the 1920s you could buy stocks on margin. You could put 10 percent down and borrow the rest against your stocks.

As a bull market continues, almost anything you buy goes up. It makes you feel that investing in stocks is a very easy and safe and that you're a financial genius.

I'm not a stock expert by any means. Stocks go up; they go down.

I have never invested directly in stocks and shares. That's never been my type of speculation.

How many stories have you read that aren't true, stories about me and Angie being married or fighting or splitting up? And when we don't split up, there's a whole new round that we've made up and we're back together again!

A story begins and it always passes from the subjunctive to the declarative. And Italians don't seem to care about making a fine distinction between that which is speculation and that which is fact.

Sci-fi and horror, particularly, allow a storyteller to depart from, let's say, the demands of cinema verite or kitchen-sink realism or, even, just relatable dramas and can go into areas that are either - in the case of horror - more primally effective or, in the case of sci-fi, more speculative or imaginative.

As the early memory researcher Hermann Ebbinghaus (1850–1909) wrote, "Psychology has a long past, but only a short history." He meant that people have been thinking about human thought, emotion, intelligence, and behavior for thousands of years, but as a discipline based on facts rather than speculation psychology is still in its infancy. Even

As the early memory researcher Hermann Ebbinghaus (1850–1909) wrote, "Psychology has a long past, but only a short history." He meant that people have been thinking about human thought, emotion, intelligence, and behavior for thousands of years, but as a discipline based on facts rather than speculation psychology is still in its infancy.

Two questions form the foundation of all novels: "What if?" and "What next?" (A third question, "What now?", is one the author asks himself every 10 minutes or so; but it's more a cry than a question.) Every novel begins with the speculative question, What if "X" happened? That's how you start.

A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.

I've always loved far future SF, so it was more or less a given that I would one day want to write in that form.

A large fraction of the most interesting scientists have read a lot of SF at one time or another, either early enough that it may have played a part in their becoming scientists or at some later date just because they liked the ideas.

It would seem staggeringly arrogant to think we were the only ones in the universe, but at the same time, I don't know if contact has been made yet or not because you think something like that would be hard to cover up. I'm still on the fence. I keep an open mind about all of these things.

The cynical part of the answer is that I expect to see a good deal more space opera, set far enough in the future as to be disconnected from contemporary issues.