Quote by Jill Konrath

When you fall short of your internal forecast, two things happen: Costs go up as a percentage of sales, and margins go down.

— Ted Waitt

We miss 100 percent of the sales we don’t ask for.

— Zig Ziglar

History constantly reminds us that in an uncertain world there is no visibility of prospects. Future earnings cannot be predicted with accuracy.

— David Dreman

Buy when most people, including experts, are pessimistic, and sell when they are actively optimistic,

— Benjamin Graham

Losses of a kind of satisfaction that have no market equivalent don't show up in the calculations of economists.

— Ivan Illich

In reality, no one knows what the market will do; trying to predict it is a waste of time, and investing based upon that…

— Seth Klarman

I believe in analysis and not forecasting.

— Nicolas Darvas

“There is no question that the losing IPOs far outnumber the winners. Of the 8,606 firms examined, the returns on 6,796 of these firms,…

— Jeremy J. Siegel

Whenever you try to pick market tops and bottoms, you are making a prediction. Guessing what stock is going to outperform the market is…

— Barry Ritholtz

You should expect little or nothing from Wall Street stock pickers who hope to be more accurate than the market in predicting the future…

— Daniel Kahneman

I can never predict what the markets will do. Sometimes it does the exact opposite of what I would have expected.

— Mitt Romney

No one can forecast the economy with certainty.

— Jamie Dimon