Accurate Quote by Bill Gurley Download Open image “You can't make money with a consensus accurate prediction” — Bill Gurley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Accurate Consensus Making money Money Predictions
Prediction is a very difficult business, particularly about the future — Fred Singer Copy Share Image
It is absurd to think that the general public can ever make money out of market forecasts. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
Every day I make predictions that don't come anywhere close to the mark. — Joe Posnanski Copy Share Image
Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge. — Lao Tzu Copy Share Image
Data-driven predictions can succeed-and they can fail. It is when we deny our role in the process that the odds of failure rise. Before… — Nate Silver Copy Share Image
A general rule: if enough people predict something, it won't happen. — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
There is an excellent way to make predictions without the slightest risk of error: predict the past. — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
I have never seen Jeff Bezos, Marc Benioff, or Reed Hastings complain about being public. Nor have they ever argued that being public prevented… — Bill Gurley Copy Share Image
I think one thing that may have happened with both Facebook and Zynga is that they may have waited too long to go public.… — Bill Gurley Copy Share Image
If one asserts that buying customers below what they charge them is a corporate strategy, this is in essence an arbitrage game, and arbitrage… — Bill Gurley Copy Share Image
Many consumer Internet business executives are loyalists of the Lifetime Value model, often referred to as the LTV model or formula. Lifetime value is… — Bill Gurley Copy Share Image
Almost everybody who thinks about local thinks about daily deals, but companies like OpenTable and Zillow and Yelp are all getting their money from… — Bill Gurley Copy Share Image
Having an investor on your board of directors who is naive about public markets or finds them complex or scary is non-optimal. — Bill Gurley Copy Share Image
Facebook has stitched together your social graph. The idea of an interest graph is to bring together everyone that has shared interests. If I… — Bill Gurley Copy Share Image
It's not for everybody to tweet, it's for everybody to follow. The more people figure that out, they see it's RSS-plus. It's literally the… — Bill Gurley Copy Share Image
Most firms are hierarchical in nature, with everyone getting different slices of the economic pie. The problem is those slices are negotiated every time… — Bill Gurley Copy Share Image
If the goal is to build companies that maximize long-term equity value, then optimizing corporate performance in a way that Wall Street appreciates is… — Bill Gurley Copy Share Image
Marketing executives like big budgets, as big budgets make it easier to grow the top line. — Bill Gurley Copy Share Image
The surprise of an army is now next to an impossibility. ... Prearranged surprises are rare and difficult because in order to plan one… — Antoine-Henri Jomini Copy Share Image
In essence, I see the value of journalism as resting in a twofold mission: informing the public of accurate and vital information, and its… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
I never think of things rationally or intellectually. I swear, every single decision I make is just instinct and my instincts tend to be… — Neill Blomkamp Copy Share Image
No accurate thinker will judge another person by that which the other person's enemies say about him. — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
The Bell curve is a fact of life. The blacks on average score 85 per cent on IQ and it is accurate, nothing to… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
A film is a chain of very difficult decisions, and I think one of them is to choose an accurate cast. — Javier Camara Copy Share Image
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He [Groucho's father] had absolutely no training, and if you had ever seen one of his suits, you'd realize what an accurate statement that… — Groucho Marx Copy Share Image
... the attempt to render visual intricacy makes words feel unwieldy, like sacks of meaning that must be lugged into place, dragged here and… — Mark Doty Copy Share Image
Not forgiving prolongs hurt and anger and leads to smoldering resentment, which will make us miserable until it kills us. Resentment destroys the perception… — Richard Walters Copy Share Image
Selfish hedonism is not a pejorative. It is a description - an exactly accurate description of what is involved in homosexual relations. — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
The western mantra is that Israel seeks negotiations without preconditions, while the Palestinians refuse. The opposite is more accurate. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image