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Variability Quotes by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- When an investor focuses on short-term investments, he or she is observing the variability of the portfolio, not the returns - in short, being fooled…
- Never think that lack of variability is stability. Don't confuse lack of volatility with stability, ever.
More Variability Quotes
- Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of mercury in a barometer, indicate little else than the variability of the weather. — David Hare
- According to any textbook on dynamic meteorology, one may reasonably conclude that in a warmer world, extratropical storminess and weather variability will… — Richard Lindzen
- The modern joint stock firm is the outcome of innumerable decisions made by individual entrepreneurs, owners and managers. For these decision makers… — Alfred D. Chandler, Jr.
- Cultural diversity and cultural change are desirable and inevitable. We are cultural animals, someone without a culture is not human. But the… — Martin Wolf
- The five-year mean global temperature has been flat for the last decade, which we interpret as a combination of natural variability and… — James Hansen
- When an investor focuses on short-term investments, he or she is observing the variability of the portfolio, not the returns - in… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- In particular, Australia, because of its ancient geography, soil profile and distinctive weather patterns, is more adversely affected by climate variability than… — Peter Garrett
- The reduced variability of small populations is not always due to accidental gene loss, but sometimes to the fact that the entire… — Ernst Mayr