The most common cause of low prices is pessimism - some times pervasive, some times specific to a company or industry. We… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Creeds matter very little... The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
I've always been sceptical about the notion that the market is a person you can engage in an argument with, and that… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
Some people argue against both optimism and pessimism in favor of so-called realistic thinking. They distrust optimism on the grounds that it… — Price Pritchett Copy Share Image
An optimist is someone who figures that if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's the bluebird of… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
After 5,000 years of recorded human history, you wonder, what part of 2,000,000 sunrises doesn't a pessimist understand? — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
An optimist is merely an ex-pessimist with his pockets full of money, his digestion in good condition, and his wife in the… — Helen Rowland Copy Share Image
How do you tell an optimist that he or she has lived a happy life by mistake? — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
The realist sees reality as concrete. The optimist sees reality as clay. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
Optimism and pessimism are mere matters of optics, of how you look at things, and that can change from day to day,… — George Weigel Copy Share Image
It's still possible to be a cockeyed optimist these days - you just have to be a little more cockeyed. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
It can be said of optimism that while sometimes mistaken, it is never sadly mistaken. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
I don't think in terms of optimism and pessimism when writing a story. I am telling a story. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
