Estimate Quotes

213 Estimate quotes by 179 unique authors

Most of us would never consider getting our car repaired without first receiving an estimate of the charges, but this is exactly what we do… — Dan Lipinski
It surprises people that there's actually a very large number of slaves in the world today-our best estimate is 27 million. And that is defining… — Kevin Bales
Everybody all over the world takes a wife's estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man. — Honore de Balzac
The pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes, or holds them of no account in the estimate of his… — Adam Sedgwick
One of the big problems with growth investing is that we can't estimate earnings very well. I really want to buy growth at value prices.… — David Dreman
Real freedom isn't subject to how others estimate our value; it is in realizing that none are free who find their sense of worth wondering… — Guy Finley
The probability of success is difficult to estimate; but if we never search the chance of success is zero. — Philip Morrison
If you don’t feel comfortable making a rough estimate of the asset’s future earnings, just forget it and move on. No one has the ability… — Warren Buffett
None of us can estimate what we do when we do it from instinct. — Luigi Pirandello
I should estimate that in my experience most troubles and most possibilities for improvement add up to the proportions something like this: 94% belongs to… — W. Edwards Deming
The intelligence community's 2002 National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) stated, in a formal presentation to President Bush and to Congress, its view that Saddam had weapons… — Laurence Silberman
If we betake ourselves to the statistical method, we do so confessing that we are unable to follow the details of each individual case, and… — James Clerk Maxwell
Fortunately, President Kennedy and Robert Kennedy disagreed with the estimate and chose a course of action less ambitious and aggressive than recommended by their advisers. — David Kay
I would far rather over-estimate the threat [imposed by the Patriot Act] and be proven wrong than to underestimate the threat and wake up one… — Tim Lee
Objectives can be compared to a compass bearing by which a ship navigates. A compass bearing is firm, but in actual navigation, a ship may… — Peter Drucker
Please say this gas bill is just an estimate — Adolf Hitler
When I go to the beauty parlor, I always use the emergency entrance. Sometimes I just go for an estimate. — Phyllis Diller
Politeness is one of those advantages which we never estimate rightly but by the inconvenience of its loss. — Samuel Johnson
If we estimate dignity by immediate usefulness, agriculture is undoubtedly the first and noblest science. — Samuel Johnson
"I think we'll have a good potato crop this year," a newspaper editor told his housekeeper one morning. "No such thing," asserted the housekeeper. "I… — James Keller
Jesus Christ out-socialists the socialists. He says that in His Kingdom he that is greatest shall be the servant of all. The real test of… — Oswald Chambers
In the present age, man proves his separation from his Creator by his spirit of self-sufficienc y and positive rejection of God. The present issue… — Lewis Sperry Chafer
My estimate is that about 94,000 cancer fatalities for the future are being induced with each year of medical diagnostic X-rays (in US). — John Gofman
It is fashionable nowadays to talk about the endless riches of the sea. The ocean is regarded as a sort of bargain basement, but I… — Jacques Yves Cousteau
Last night we had three small zucchini for dinner that were grown within fifty feet of our back door. I estimate they cost somewhere in… — Andy Rooney

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