“Digital technologies are now an unavoidable part of the infrastructure of life and society, and we have the capacity to design them in ways that promote, understand and respect people's goals and values in ways we simply couldn't in the pre-digital era. With many of these technologies, though, our deeper human goals get treated as secondary, or are ignored altogether, in favour of lower 'engagement' goals such as views or clicks.”— James Williams
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The point of maximum pessimism is the ultimate time to buy a stock because at this point, all the sellers are gone… and only buyers remain. How do you determine this point? Even Uncle John said it's impossible…. You never know until it has passed!
— Lauren TempletonValue investor and niece of legendary investor John Templeton
The world of business is scared without realising that it, itself, is the cure.
— AuthorThey have maternal instincts and look after each other as we do… it's not an intellectual thing when a mother protects her child; it's an instinctive behaviour. We value all those things in the human being because we are human beings! But that's pretty short sighted and narrow minded.
— Ingrid NewkirkFounder and President of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA)
If you don't spend a lot of money on something and it doesn't work out… is it really a 'failure'? Most entrepreneurs start a lot of different ventures. Some work better than others, but that's totally normal and expected.
— Chris GuillebeauAuthor of "The $100 Startup" and lifestyle design expert
What really is risky?! In many ways I think it's actually much safer to take things into your own hands rather than trusting your destiny to an uncertain jobs market.
— Chris GuillebeauAuthor of "The $100 Startup" and lifestyle design expert
If you asked most people to categorise good trades and bad trades, you would find the answers to be quite simple… If it makes money it's a good trade, and if it loses money, it's a bad trade. That's not true at all…
— Jack SchwagerAuthor of Market Wizards & Hedge Fund Expert
If you take a trade that follows your process exactly and if that trade loses money, that was not a bad trade. It's only a bad trade if you deviate from your process and lose money. I would go further and say that if you deviate from your process and make money, it's still a bad trade.
— Jack SchwagerAuthor of Market Wizards & Hedge Fund Expert
The diversity of strategies people use is truly remarkable, I saw people using completely different strategies to the degree that if I had set out to invent 15 different strategies for a fictional work…. I couldn't have made the strategies more different to the ones I saw in real life! This illustrates a point I have made in all my works insofar as there really is no 'holy grail' or single style that is most effective.
— Jack SchwagerAuthor of Market Wizards & Hedge Fund Expert
It's a matter of finding an approach that works for the individual. A person has to know whether they are comfortable with fundamental or technical, long term or short term, certain types of markets, wider risk or less risk… You can go through a whole checklist of things and find it's different for each individual.
— Jack SchwagerAuthor of Market Wizards & Hedge Fund Expert
If somebody told me the US stock market returned 12% per annum over the last 50 years, I would simply ask them what the returns were over the last 150 years, 250 years, 10 years and so on. I could make up any return I want just by picking the appropriate time period.
— Dr. Bob SwarupTo me it was an adventure. I'm a hardened explorer and adventurer, and I remember the whole mission as an adventure with some awesome experiences and beautiful sights.
— Charlie DukeAstronaut on Apollo 16 Moon Landing Mission
Once you land, it's total excitement, 'I'm on the Moon!' – you're bubbling with enthusiasm like a little kid on holiday.
— Charlie DukeAstronaut on Apollo 16 Moon Landing Mission
Everything you do in life that's worthwhile entails some risk, that's the nature of exploration and the nature of adventure.
— Charlie DukeAstronaut on Apollo 16 Moon Landing Mission
Institutional investors are decidedly more process-oriented in their due diligence, with a quantitative focus, while their non-institutional counterparts generally have a more qualitative approach and require fewer data points in the course of their due diligence.
— Jeff JosephClothing concerns all of the human person, all of the body, all of the relationships of man to body as well as the relationships of the body to society.
— Roland BarthesFrench literary theorist & semiotician; pioneer of structuralism & cultural criticism
Dress is the way in which individuals learn to live in their bodies and feel at home in them.
— Joanne Entwistle