· You can mispredict everything for all your life yet think that you will get it right next time.
· There is no such thing as bad publicity; some people manage to promote your work by insulting it.
· It is a mistake to use statistics without logic; it is not a mistake to use logic without statistic.
· Conversations and correspondence with intelligent people is a better engine for personal edification than plain library visits.
· That which came with the help of luck could be taken away by luck
· Mild success can be explainable by skills and labor; wild success is attributable to variance.
· Mathematics is not just a “number game” it is a way of thinking.
· Heroes are heroes because they are heroic in behavior , not because they won or lost.
· Volatility seems to be determined not by the actual moves but by the tone of the media.
· Beware the confusion between correctness and intelligibility.
· What sounds intelligent in a conversation or a meeting, or particularly, in the media, is suspicious.
· A book can make a strong impression, but such an impression tends to wane after some newer impression replaces in the brain.
· It clearly costs money to look and behave rich, not to count the time demands of spending money.
· Gambling is best defined as an activity where the agent gets a thrill when confronting a random outcome, regardless of whether he has the odds stacked in his favor or against him.
· We may be programmed to build a loyalty of ideas.
· Just listen while shaken by emotion but not with the coward’s imploration and complaints.
· A mild degree of unpredictability in your behavior can help you to protect yourself in situation of conflict.
· Unpredictability is a strong deterrent.
· We favor the visible, the embedded, the personal, the narrated and tangible ; we scorn the abstract
Source: Fooled by Randomness
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