A stochastic process is about the results of convolving probabilities-which is just what management is about, as well. — Anthony Stafford Beer Copy Share Image
Probability fractions arise from our knowledge and from our ignorance. — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
The true logic of this world is the calculus of probabilities. — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
The idea is to buy when the probability is greatest that the market is going to advance. — Martin Zweig Copy Share Image
You never get bored ... when you have the probabilities of your next meal to speculate on, pro and con. — Samuel Hopkins Adams Copy Share Image
Probability of human error is considerably higher than that of machine error. — Kenneth Appel Copy Share Image
The more people you contact, the higher your sales will be because of the law of probabilities. — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
With caution judge of probability. Things deemed unlikely, e'en impossible, experience oft hath proved to be true. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
We can say with certainty - or 90% probability - that the new industries that are about to be born will have… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
An aphorism is an extreme synthesis of thesis and antithesis, theory and practice, it's a mixture of intuition and observation, hypothesis and… — William C. Brown Copy Share Image
An executive might have a very strong intuition that a given product has promise, without considering the probability that a rival is… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
... the smaller the domain where choices among alternatives are made collectively, the smaller will be the probability that any individual's preference… — Anthony de Jasay Copy Share Image
Nonetheless, it still remains true that as a set of cognitive beliefs, religious doctrines constitute a speculative hypothesis of an extremely low… — Sidney Hook Copy Share Image
The probability of the people in power being individuals who would dislike the possession and exercise of power is on a level… — Frank Knight Copy Share Image
The theory of probabilities is basically only common sense reduced to a calculus. It makes one estimate accurately what right-minded people feel… — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
In a system of free trade and free markets poor countries - and poor people - are not poor because others are… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
We pride ourselves on being the only species that understands the concept of risk, yet we have a confounding habit of worrying… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
“Believing that random probability is the answer to ‘Life, the Universe and Everything’ is like believing that a spherical die, thrown from… — Terence Thirteen Copy Share Image
Manners,[...] are severly underappreciated in my opinion". "Oh?" Where practiced well, they remove the probability that someone in my position will be… — Michelle Sagara Copy Share Image
An easterly is the most disagreeable wind in Lyme Bay — Lyme Bay being that largest bite from the underside of England's… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
It's not about the pace, it's about the direction we've set. The pace is of course a function of many factors, including… — Marek Belka Copy Share Image
I find that the old Roman baths of this quarter, were found covered by an old burying ground, belonging to the Abbey;… — Tobias Smollett Copy Share Image
I am now about to set seriously to work upon preparing for the press an account of my theory of Logic and… — George Boole Copy Share Image
While feeling far less injured by toil than my friends took for granted I must be, I yet was always aware of… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
Human intellectual progress, such as it has been, results from our long struggle to see things 'as they are,' or in the… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Contemporary scholars have little explored the preconditions of genocide. Still less have they asked whether a society's weapons policy might be one… — Daniel D. Polsby Copy Share Image
The lower the family income, the higher the probability that the mother must work. Today, 1 out of 5 of these working… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
So in this case, Kalamas, don't go by reports, by legends, by traditions, by scripture, by logical conjecture, by inference, by analogies,… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
As I have heard, since my arrival at this place, a circumstantial account of my death and dying speech, I take this… — George Washington Copy Share Image
The difficulty in judging what type of behavior works well arises not only because a given course of action does not always… — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
If to enjoy even an enjoyable present we must have the assurance of a happy future, we are “crying for the moon.”… — Alan Watts 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
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