It is important for investors to understand what they do and don't know. Learn to recognize that you cannot possibly know what… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
“Our world is increasingly complex, often chaotic, and always fast-flowing. This makes forecasting something between tremendously difficult and actually impossible, with a… — Andrew McAfee Copy Share Image
The quest for certainty in forecasting outcomes can be the enemy of progress. — Nate Silver Copy Share Image
The goal of forecasting is not to predict the future but to tell you what you need to know to take meaningful… — Paul Saffo Copy Share Image
Constraint theory asks: What is the price for doing this? Now one way around constraint theory is declaring your enemy crazy. Crazy… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
Auto repair, piloting, skiing, perhaps even management: these are skills that yield to application, hard work, and native talent. But forecasting an… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
Now if you can recognize and memorize a grandmaster's game, and you have the respect to understand [Zimbabwean president Robert] Mugabe who… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
I think that intelligent forecasting (company revenues, earnings, etc.) should not seek to predict what will in fact happen in the future.… — Peter Cundill Copy Share Image
I'm concerned with the world economy, I'm a specialist in forecasting in that area, and I have a lot of influence in… — Lyndon LaRouche Copy Share Image
We are convinced that the intelligent investor can derive satisfactory results from pricing of either type (market timing or fundamental analysis via… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
There are domains in which expertise is not possible. Stock picking is a good example. And in long-term political strategic forecasting, it's… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Satellite photography in the 1970's gave rise to the long-range weather forecast, a month at a time. This in turn gave rise… — Miles Kington Copy Share Image
The trouble with weather forecasting is that it's right too often for us to ignore it and wrong too often for us… — Patrick Young Copy Share Image
If I have noticed anything over these 60 years on Wall Street, it is that people do not succeed in forecasting what`s… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
Did they launch the last space shuttle yet?” – Sundown “I don’t follow.” – Ren “I’m just thinking maybe we should evacuate… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Aside from its importance to many branches of science, a knowledge of the oceans has a practical value for mankind. The intelligent… — Paul J. H. Schoemaker Copy Share Image
Computer modelling for weather forecasting, and indeed for climate forecasting, has reached its limits. — Piers Corbyn Copy Share Image
Nate Silver is now forecasting Oscar winners. The only area of life in which he has no expertise, ironically, is life itself. — Norman Chad Copy Share Image
Investing is an activity of forecasting the yield over the life of the asset; speculation is the activity of forecasting the psychology… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Science is the key to our future, and if you don’t believe in science, then you’re holding everybody back. And it’s fine… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
Expert estimates of probability are often off by factors of hundreds or thousands. [...] I used to be annoyed when the margin… — Nate Silver Copy Share Image
Now it will take a long time to scale biofuels, but I'm the only one in the world forecasting oil dropping in… — Vinod Khosla Copy Share Image
