Humans Quote by William Eckhardt Download Open image “Good systems tend to violate normal human tendencies.” — William Eckhardt ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Humans Inspirational Normal Tendencies
Creating systems where people feel like they're being punished for things they didn't do wrong breaks all kinds of trust and makes people feel… — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
Any altruistic system is inherently unstable, because it is open to abuse by selfish individuals, ready to exploit it. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Our behavior is governed by principles. Living in harmony with them brings positive consequences; violating them brings negative consequences. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Each of us possesses a tangible living soul. The system has no such thing. We must not allow the system to exploit us. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
In all the known history of Mankind, advances have been made primarily in physical technology; in the capacity of handling the inanimate world about… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Good people cannot fully compensate for bad process, but they can mitigate some of its worst tendencies. — Richard N. Haass Copy Share Image
I don't believe in good human beings, but I believe you can have structures that make it easier to make the right choice or… — Justin Welby Copy Share Image
I dont believe in good human beings, but I believe you can have structures that make it easier to make the right choice or… — Justin Welby Copy Share Image
“So often the problem is in the system, not in the people. If you put good people in bad systems, you get bad results.… — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
I've never believed it's really so important that you conform to the ways of the system in order to beat the system. I think… — Saul Williams Copy Share Image
One common adage...that is completely wrongheaded is: You can't go broke taking profits. That's precisely how many traders do go broke. While amateurs go… — William Eckhardt Copy Share Image
I know of a few multimillionaires who started trading with inherited wealth. In each case, they lost it all because they didn't feel the… — William Eckhardt Copy Share Image
Amateurs go broke taking large losses, professionals go broke taking small profits. — William Eckhardt Copy Share Image
In many ways, large profits are even more insidious than large losses in terms of emotional destabilization. I think it's important not to be… — William Eckhardt Copy Share Image
It's much easier to learn what you should do in trading than to do it. Good systems tend to violate normal human tendencies. — William Eckhardt Copy Share Image
Don't think about what the market's going to do; you have absolutely no control over that. Think about what you're going to do if… — William Eckhardt Copy Share Image
Don't think about what the market's going to do; you have absolutely no control over that. Think about what you're going to do if… — William Eckhardt Copy Share Image
You can be very promiscuous in your research, but not in your trading. — William Eckhardt Copy Share Image
The desire to maximize the number of winning trades (or minimize the number of losing trades) works against the trader. The success rate of… — William Eckhardt Copy Share Image
If a betting game among a certain number of participants I played long enough, eventually one player will have all the money. If there… — William Eckhardt Copy Share Image
Entertainment is a sacred pursuit when done well. When done well, it raises the quality of human life. — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Nothing is so powerful as an insight into human nature... what compulsions drive a man, what instincts dominate his action. If you know these… — William Bernbach Copy Share Image
Never underestimate the power of the human mind to believe what it wants to believe, no matter the conflicting evidence. — Brian Herbert Copy Share Image
Humans are, as Sartre put it, 'condemned to be free'. To insist that science, or God, objectively defines moral values is to abandon our… — Kenan Malik Copy Share Image
Human beings have an innate inner drive to be autonomous, self-determined, and connected to one another. And when that drive is liberated, people achieve… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
Half the misery of human life might be extinguished if men would alleviate the general curse they lie under by mutual offices of compassion,… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
When grubbing for necessities man is still an animal. He becomes uniquely human when he reaches out for the superfluous and extravagant. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image