Fluctuation Quotes

Most of the time common stocks are subject to irrational and excessive price fluctuations in both directions as the consequence of the ingrained tendency of most people to speculate or gamble... to give way to hope, fear and greed.

Benjamin Graham

Hope, Time, Money

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Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.

Warren Buffett

Investment Success, Enemy, Looks

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The things we fear most in organizations - fluctuations, disturbances,
imbalances - are the primary sources of creativity.

Margaret J. Wheatley

Inspirational, Fear, Business

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In the weakness of one kind of authority, and in the fluctuation of all, the officers of an army will remain for some time mutinous and full of faction, until some popular general, who understands the art of conciliating the soldiery, and who possesses the true spirit of command, shall draw the eyes of all men upon himself. Armies will obey him on his personal account. There is no other way of securing military obedience in this state of things.

Edmund Burke

Art, Military, Eye

Edmund Burke (1868). “Reflections on the Revolution in France and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event: 1790”, p.249

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The phenomenon of emergence takes place at critical points of instability that arise from fluctuations in the environment, amplified by feedback loops. Emergence results in the creation of novelty, and this novelty is often qualitatively different from the phenomenon out of which it emerged.

Fritjof Capra

Science, Differences, Environmental

Fritjof Capra, Pier Luigi Luisi (2014). “The Systems View of Life: A Unifying Vision”, p.319, Cambridge University Press

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The field of quantum valence fluctuations was another older interest which became much more active during this period, partly as a consequence of my own efforts.

Philip Warren Anderson

Effort, Fields, Quantum

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For policy makers interested in using tax policy to stimulate investments or especially to smooth business cycle fluctuations, the results are not promising.

Austan Goolsbee

Investment, Smooth, Makers

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Meanwhile the fact that the connection with the activity of memory in ordinary life is for the moment lost is of less importance than the reverse, namely, that this connection with the complications and fluctuations of life is necessarily still a too close one.

Hermann Ebbinghaus

Memories, Ordinary, Connections

Hermann Ebbinghaus (1913). “Memory: A Contribution to Experimental Psychology”

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It goes to establish a just and permanent principle of trade which puts an end to all serious fluctuations in prices and consequently, to all the insecurity and ruin which these fluctuations produce; and to build up those who are already ruined.

Josiah Warren

Insecurity, Principles, Ruins

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Gold and silver are no doubt subject to fluctuations, from the discovery of new and more abundant mines; but such discoveries are rare, and their effects, though powerful, are limited to periods of comparatively short duration.

David Ricardo

Powerful, Discovery, Doubt

David Ricardo, John Ramsay McCulloch (1846). “The Works of David Ricardo ...”, p.11

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Because of my own experience with market fluctuation, I recognize the great risks one takes on investments. This converts the Social Security safety net into a risky proposition many cannot afford to take.

Grace Napolitano

Safety, Risk, Investment

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According to the standard model billions of years ago some little quantum fluctuation, perhaps a slightly lower density of matter, maybe right where we're sitting right now, caused our galaxy to start collapsing around here.

Seth Lloyd

Years, Density, Sitting

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Inflation is lower and more stable and the real business cycle fluctuations are more modest.

Martin Feldstein

Real, Modesty, Inflation

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In my model, important interference phenomena arise when individual strata come into contact. These chaotic fluctuations are, I suppose, what my music is really about.

Brian Ferneyhough

Important, Individual, Arise

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The chaos can act as a magnifier of quantum fluctuations so that they can produce sizable effects in the world around us. But we know that that can happen often

Murray Gell-Mann

World, Chaos, Quantum

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What is it but a map of busy life,
Its fluctuations, and its vast concerns?

William Cowper

Life, Maps, Busy

William COWPER (1835). “The works of his life and letters”, p.37

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Your emotions are meant to fluctuate, just like your blood pressure is meant to fluctuate. It's a system that's supposed to move back and forth, between happy and unhappy. That's how the system guides you through the world.

Daniel Gilbert

Moving, Blood, Unhappy

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Physicists often quote from T. H. White's epic novel The Once and Future King, where a society of ants declares, "Everything not forbidden is compulsory." In other words, if there isn't a basic principle of physics forbidding time travel, then time travel is necessarily a physical possibility. (The reason for this is the uncertainty principle. Unless something is forbidden, quantum effects and fluctuations will eventually make it possible if we wait long enough. Thus, unless there is a law forbidding it, it will eventually occur.)

Michio Kaku

Kings, Science, Epic

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New York City is a living organism; It evolves, it devolves, it fluctuates as a living organism. So my relationship with New York City is as vitriolic as the relationship with myself and with any other human being which means that it changes every millisecond, that it's in constant fluctuation.

Timothy Levitch

New York, Mean, Cities

"The Cruise". Documentary, 1998.

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By numberless examples it will evidently appear that human affairs are as subject to change and fluctuation as the waters of the sea agitated by the winds.

Francesco Guicciardini

Wind, Sea, Water

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The more adept we become at cultivating an altruistic attitude, the happier we will feel and the more comfortable will be the atmosphere around us. But if our emotions fluctuate wildly and we easily give in to hatred and jealousy, even our friends will avoid us. So even for people with no spiritual beliefs, it is important to have a peaceful mind.

Dalai Lama

Spiritual, Attitude, Giving

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In our fluctuations of feelings, it is well to remember that Jesus admits no change in His affections; your heart is not the compass Jesus saileth by.

Samuel Rutherford

Jesus, Heart, Feelings

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Economy and ideology. The claim (presented as an essential postulate of historical materialism) that every fluctuation of politics and ideology can be presented and expounded as an immediate expression of the structure, must be contested in theory as primitive infantilism, and combated in practice with the authentic testimony of Marx, the author of concrete political and historical works.

Antonio Gramsci

Expression, Practice, Political

"Selections from the Prison Notebooks". Book by Antonio Gramsci, 1971.

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To explore the unknown and the familiar, distant and near and to record in detail with the eyes of a child, any beauty, (of the flesh or otherwise) horror, irony, traces of utopia or Hell. Select your team with care, but when in doubt, take on some new crew and give them a chance. But avoid at all costs fluctuations of sincerity with your best people.

Dan Eldon

Children, Team, Eye

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We're emphasizing the knowable by predicting how certain people and companies will swim against the current. We're not predicting the fluctuation in the current.

Charlie Munger

People, Swim, Insightful

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