Business Quote by Edgar Fiedler Download Open image “The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers..” — Edgar Fiedler ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Business Herds Independent Independent thinker Instinct Looks Sheep Thinker
I think herd mentality is a good thing overall. Because if every sheep had to figure out the velocity of the wolf and their… — Neal Barnard Copy Share Image
If you put enough sheep together you have a herd- a force to be reckoned with. — Maria V. Snyder Copy Share Image
Forecasting is simply not a strength of the species; we are much better with tools and narrative storytelling. — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
I have found that if you invest in the lives of people, well-feed sheep will reproduce themselves. — Greg Laurie Copy Share Image
Sheep are stupid, and have to be driven. But goats are intelligent, and need to be led. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of forecasters: those who don’t know, and those who don’t know they don’t know. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
“Hundreds of studies confirm that human forecasts are flawed and biased. Human decision making is not so great either. Again to take just one… — Richard H. Thaler Copy Share Image
I've always thought that anyone who needs to join a herd so badly must be a bit of a sheep himself. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
Any thinking person is qualified to be a forecaster, and in fact, everybody does it every day. — Paul Saffo Copy Share Image
To argue that we humans are capable of complex multifarious thought and feeling, whereas the sheep's perception is probably limited by lowly sheepish perceptions,… — Brigid Brophy Copy Share Image
“Herding is tough,If a herder leaves his goats they deviate from their path and So is maths,If u stop practicing,your concepts recede from view” — Rz Copy Share Image
Forecasters tend to learn less and less about more and more, until in the end they know nothing about everything. — Edgar Fiedler Copy Share Image
When you know absolutely nothing about the topic, make your forecast by asking a carefully selected probability sample of 300 others who don't know… — Edgar Fiedler Copy Share Image
Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers - six if one went to Harvard.. — Edgar Fiedler Copy Share Image
There is no formula that will guarantee success in forecasting, no magic words that will part the clouds. The real problem, as the old… — Edgar Fiedler Copy Share Image
In a sense, there are as many forecasting methods as there are forecasters. But I would argue that most projections are derived from two… — Edgar Fiedler Copy Share Image
We're not very good at forecasting, and we don't know how to measure the impact of economic policy. — Edgar Fiedler Copy Share Image
Experience shows that a recession is never the result of just a few large industries dragging the economy down while the others continue to… — Edgar Fiedler Copy Share Image
No one can escape the iron rule that once you make a forecast, you know you're going to be wrong; you just don't know… — Edgar Fiedler Copy Share Image
Economists state their GNP growth projections to the nearest tenth of a percentage point to prove they have a sense of humor. — Edgar Fiedler Copy Share Image
Companies with cultures that celebrate diverse opinions and encourage the exchange of ideas have an advantage when solving difficult problems. A company that doesn't… — Doug McMillon Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
I'm a business first and foremost so whatever my business is, it's separate from my personal. It's like whatever I do business wise, it's… — Snoop Dogg Copy Share Image
Many early-stage entrepreneurs make one simple mistake: Describing this 'big picture' in vague concepts and words. — Sunil Nagaraj Copy Share Image
Nobody has a crystal ball, and part of evolving a business plan is to say, 'I might have said we're going left, but I… — Ryan Kavanaugh Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
“[S]ometimes, when you are a food person, the possible irrelevance of what you are doing doesn’t cross your mind until it’s too late. (Once, for example, when I was just starting out in the food business, I was hired by the caper people to develop a lot of recipes using capers, and it was weeks of tossing capers into just… — Nora Ephron Copy Share
If you have a different mindset, you will have a different outcome: if you make different choices from your peers, your life will then… — Jack Ma Copy Share Image
“Some say the Earth is angry Because he wants no company; I say the Earth is angry Because he lives alone.” — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
If the State does not acquire supremacy over [vast private] enterprises, it becomes their puppet, and they become the real State. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image