Edge also implies what Ben Graham....called a margin of safety. You have a margin of safety when you buy an asset at… — Michael Mauboussin Copy Share Image
There was but one question he left unasked, and it vibrated between his lines: if gross miscalculations of a person's value could… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
Politicians and bureaucrats are substituting their uninformed, largely political decisions for those of the marketplace. Their past miscalculations demonstrate that they do… — Mark Levin Copy Share Image
Bin Laden was, though, a product of a monumental miscalculation by western security agencies. Throughout the 80s he was armed by the… — Robin Cook Copy Share Image
A miscalculation is not negligence, nor prudence a crime. I am a scientist. I base my action or inaction upon probability and… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
We need to be skeptical of utopianists who offer unreliable totalistic visions of other worlds and strive to take us there. We… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
You don't have any communication between the Israelis and the Iranians. You have all sorts of local triggers for conflict. Having countries… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The margin of safety is always dependent on the price paid. It will be large at one price, small at some higher… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
The blindness of bigotry, the madness of ambition, and the miscalculations of diplomacy seek their victims principally amongst the innocent and the… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I would say that among my many huge emotional miscalculations was my taking a film career for granted. It is the most… — Robert Downey, Jr Copy Share Image
Without question, we need to disarm Saddam Hussein. He is a brutal, murderous dictator, leading an oppressive regime ... He presents a… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
For a man to think he can fulfil his destiny without a woman is a misunderstanding, a miscalculation; it is reckless and… — Yasmina Khadra Copy Share Image
If a person realized that everything people call happiness, love and joy was just a miscalculation based on a false premise, he'd… — Vladimir Bartol Copy Share Image
President Bush had an opportunity tonight to say, 'Look ... things aren't going very well in Iraq and we did make some… — Mike McCurry Copy Share Image
Truth is one, but error proliferates. Man tracks it down and cuts it up into little pieces hoping to turn it into… — Rene Daumal Copy Share Image
People often of masterful intelligence, trained usually in law or economics or perhaps in political science, who have led their governments into… — Michael Howard Copy Share Image
I wondered whether I could find a Great Perhaps here at all or whether I had made a grand miscalculation. — John Green Copy Share Image
So the threat of Saddam Hussein with weapons of mass destruction is real. — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
As Bush said, after detailing some of Saddam Hussein's charming practices: “If this is not evil, then evil has no meaning.” It's… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
The embassy in Cairo put out a statement after their grounds had been breached. ... An apology for America's values is never… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
Only a work democracy can create the foundation of genuine freedom. Long experience in sociological disputes leads me to expect that a… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
Coyness is a rather comically pathetic fault, a miscalculation in which, by trying to veil the ego, we let it appear stark… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
Our intention to regard the closing of the Straits as a casus belli was communicated...to the foreign ministers of those states which… — Abba Eban Copy Share Image
But no matter how much planning you do, one tiny miscalculation, one moment of distraction, can end it all in an instant. — Jeannette Walls Copy Share Image
