Identity Quote by Peter L. Bernstein

“life is a collection of similarities rather than identities; no single observation is a perfect example of generality.” quote by Peter L. Bernstein — Download Open image

““life is a collection of similarities rather than identities; no single observation is a perfect example of generality.””

Peter L. Bernstein

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Gambling has held human beings in thrall for millennia. It has been engaged in everywhere, from the dregs of society to the most respectable…

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“Time matters most when decisions are irreversible. And yet many irreversible decisions must be made on the basis of incomplete information.”

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“[The] utility resulting from any small increase in wealth will be inversely proportionate to the quantity of goods previously possessed.”

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The word 'risk' derives from the early Italian risicare, which means 'to dare'. In this sense, risk is a choice rather than a fate.…

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“Time matters most when decisions are irreversible.”

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The essence of risk management lies in maximizing the areas where we have some control over the outcome while minimizing the areas where we…

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“But therein lies the logician's trap: past data from real life constitute a sequence of events rather than a set of independent observations, which…

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“So we pour in data from the past to fuel the decision-making mechanisms created by our models, be they linear or nonlinear. But therein lies the logician's trap: past data from real life constitute a sequence of events rather than a set of independent observations, which is what the laws of probability demand.[...]Even though many economic and financial variables fall…

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“Our lives teem with numbers, but we sometimes forget that numberss are only tools. They have no soul; they may indeed become fetishes.”

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The revolutionary idea that defines the boundary between modern times and the past is the mastery of risk: the notion that the future is…

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“His local campaigns around Macedonia also augmented that absolutely essential economic resource: slaves-slaves to work the mines, slaves to work the fields, slaves to…

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“The information you have is not the information you want. The information you want is not the information you need. The information you need…

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