Logo
If there were no bad speculations there could be no good investmen

If there were no bad speculations there could be no good investments; if there were no wild ventures there would be no brilliantly successful enterprises. – F. W. Hirst

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Assumptions
category

Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

Category:
Assumptions

Treat with utmost respect your power of forming opinions, for this power alone guards you against making assumptions that are contrary to nature and judgments that overthrow the rule of reason. – Marcus Aurelius

Category:
Assumptions

The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession. – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Category:
Assumptions

Another great evil arising from this desire to be thought rich; or rather, from the desire not to be thought poor, is the destructive thing which has been honored by the name of speculation; but which ought to be called Gambling. – William Cobbett

Category:
Assumptions

Random Quotes

Bjorn was a different breed, I threw my best material at him, but he would never smile, but that added to the charm when he played me and Mac. We were going nuts and losing our mind and he was sitting back like he was on a Sunday stroll. – Jimmy Connors

Category:
smile

To unpathed waters, undreamed shores. – William Shakespeare

Category:
Imagination

The production of children, the nurture of those born, and the daily life of men, of these matters woman is visibly the cause. – Guru Nanak

Category:
Men

If technology has finally caught up with individual liberty, why would anyone who loves freedom want to rethink that? – Matt Drudge

Category:
Freedom