Analysis Quote by Stephen A. Schwarzman

“Inaccurate estimates are a failure of information, not of values or principles. If the numbers are wrong, fix the numbers and communicate the consequences.”

— Kent Beck

“Failure to consider alternatives fully is the most common cause of flawed or incomplete analysis.”

— Morgan D. Jones

Honest error in the face of complex and possibly intractable problems is a far more important source of bad results than are bad motives.

— Ben Bernanke

“Analyzing prices is not wrong. However, picking inflated prices as your only source of information is terrible.”

— Naved Abdali

Anything that is successful is a series of mistakes.

— Billie Joe Armstrong

“When the researchers compared whether process or analysis was more important in producing good decisions—those that increased revenues, profits, and market share—they found that…

— Chip Heath

Most people make their choices predicated upon a feeling because analysis really isn't that good a tool.

— Frederick Lenz

The New Finance focused on the market's major systematic mistake. In failing to appreciate the strength of competitive forces in a market economy, it…

— Robert Haugen

The consequences of overestimating a company and your ability to analyse it are greatly diminished when you're paying a lot less for it than…

— Whitney Tilson

I never view mistakes as failures. They are simply opportunities to find out what doesn't work.

— Thomas A. Edison

You have to make mistakes to get better. I used to make a mistake, and I kind of get down on myself. And now…

— John Schnatter

An issue that really concerned me when I was on the House Intelligence Committee was the quality of analysis.

— Pete Hoekstra