Experts Quote by Martin J. Whitman

Rarely do more than three or four variables really count. Everything else is noise.

— Martin J. Whitman

What counts is not what sounds plausible, not what we would like to believe, not what one or two witnesses claim, but only what…

— Carl Sagan

If a speculator is correct half of the time, he is hitting a good average. Even being right 3 or 4 times out of…

— Bernard Baruch

The only statistics you can trust are those you falsified yourself.

— Winston Churchill

As an investor I cannot tell that. We cannot predict the success or failure.

— Ron Conway

So many figures are quoted to prove so many things. Sometimes it depends on what paper you read or what broadcast you listen in…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

The most important quality for an investor is temperament, not intellect.

— Warren Buffett

“Even the vaunted polygraph is accurate only 60 to 80 percent of the time, depending on the operator of the instrument (Ford, 1996, 230–232; Cumming, 2007).”

— Joe Navarro

The most important quality for an investor is temperament, not intellect. You need a temperament that neither derives great pleasure from being with the…

— Warren Buffett

If you are able to look beyond near term trouble, you have an advantage over many professional investors

— Whitney Tilson

“Plainly it is not every error made by a witness which affects his credibility. In each case the trier of fact has to make…

— H.C. Nicholas

At the last count -- and we're still counting -- there were 3.2 million claims. We're approaching the doomsday scenario we described 5 years ago.

— Bill Bailey