In business we often find that the winning system goes almost ridiculously far in maximizing and or minimizing one or a few… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Humans feel deeply the suffering of their friends and allies and easily discount/dismiss the comparable experience of their enemies. — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
Anti-intellectualism is a disposition to discount the importance of truth and the life of the mind. — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
A beloved student of mine told me she believed the earth was approximately 6,000 years old. She was smart, she was thoughtful,… — Lauren Grodstein Copy Share Image
The public totally discounts low-probability high-consequence events. The individual says, it's not going to be this plane, this bus, this time. — Amanda Ripley Copy Share Image
Here's the thing about earnestness. Our culture discounts it; but people are yearning for it. — Jeffrey Zaslow Copy Share Image
In most cases, preferred supplier contracts contain volume commitments that, if not met, could jeopardize the entire contract and cost the company… — Jeff Pulver Copy Share Image
The material world is simply an expression of the mind; that's what so many fail to see. We're so dependent on what… — Megan Chance Copy Share Image
Low-income seniors who choose to enroll in a drug discount plan will receive $600 of Federal assistance in 2004 and 2005 to… — Jim Gerlach Copy Share Image
In essence, the stock market represents three separate categories of business. They are, adjusted for inflation, those with shrinking intrinsic value, those… — Michael Burry Copy Share Image
Don't ever discount the wonder of your tears. They can be healing waters and a stream of joy. Sometimes they are the… — William P. Young Copy Share Image
Not to discount my music, but I'm always suspicious of the music that I make on some level, as to how valid… — Ryan Adams Copy Share Image
Don't discount the power of your words. The thought that they might cause unnecessary hurt or discomfort should inform every conversation. — P. M. Forni Copy Share Image
The generally accepted theory is that financial markets tend towards equilibrium, and...discount the future correctly. I operate using a different theory, according… — George Soros Copy Share Image
By investing at a discount, Benjamin Graham knew that he was unlikely to experience losses. — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
I started my career as a sales guy in the nineties, when the funnel was controlled by the sales rep, who had… — Brian Halligan Copy Share Image
I don’t discount a magical hand of fate. I am an actor, after all, and a Shakespearian, no less. But it can’t… — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
When experience contradicts firmly held judgments of self-efficacy, people may not change their beliefs about themselves if the conditions of performance are… — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
There is a certain category of fool-the overeducated, the academic, the journalist, the newspaper reader, the mechanistic scientist, the pseudo-empiricist, those endowed… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Just a few thousand Hezbollah fighters set two countries on fire all by themselves. Don't discount what bloody mayhem and hell a… — Michael Totten Copy Share Image
I think it's very interesting that [doctors] privilege the self that is saying, "I don't want to die," but want to discount… — Katy Butler Copy Share Image
You cannot help being a female, and I should be something of a fool were I to discount your talents merely because… — Laurie R. King Copy Share Image