Prospects Quotes - Page 2

• Unfortunately, skill in evaluating the business prospects of a firm is not sufficient for successful stock trading, where the key question is whether the information about the firm is already incorporated in the price of the stock. Traders apparently lackthe skill to answer this crucial question, but they appear to be ignorant of their ignorance.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Ignorance, Successful, Skills

  Daniel Kahneman (2011). “Thinking, Fast and Slow”, p.247, Macmillan

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• Here's a pointer culled from the careers of men who have attained notable success: Don't sit in your office during the hours prospects can be seen. Do your office work before or after the hours during which possible customers can be reached. This may mean adding an hour or two quite often to your day's work; but in times like this particularly, the securing of a satisfactory amount of business through the expenditure of an extra hour or two a day is not an unreasonable price to pay.

  B. C. Forbes

  Mean, Men, Office Work

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• The chief obstacle to success lies in the stubborn fact that if the favorable prospects of a concern are clearly apparent they are almost always reflected already in the current price of the stock. Buying such an issue is like betting on a topheavy favorite in a horse race. The chances may be on your side, but the real odds are against you.

  Benjamin Graham

  Horse, Real, Lying

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• I always did hate for anyone to know what my plans or hopes or prospects were—for, if I kept people in ignorance in these matters, no one could be disappointed but myself, if they were not realized.

  Mark Twain

  Hate, Ignorance, People

  Mark Twain (2013). “Mark Twain's Letters”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

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• The sluggish economy is creating a situation where the young people in Japan cannot cherish their desires or have prospects for their future. Also, the decline in Japan's economic capability is resulting in a declining presence for Japan's foreign policy as well.
  
  Accordingly, the duties and mission that I must fulfill are pretty clear: namely, to regain a strong and robust economy, and also to restore Japan's strong foreign policy capability.

  Shinzo Abe

  Strong, Japan, Creating

  "Interview with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe". www.washingtonpost.com. February 20, 2013.

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• You – help - people. You are an expert in your field, who genuinely helps other human beings. Take pride in that, stop hawking your wares, and get a bit of respect for your profession, and earn some from your prospects.

  Chris Murray

  Pride, Helping Others, People

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• I am very optimistic about the long run prospects for democracy in China. Chinese society is being dramatically and rapidly transformed. And there’s rising evidence that the new generation not only lacks faith in communism anymore, they think it’s a joke. They’re very cynical about their leadership and they want democratic change.

  Larry Diamond

  Running, Optimistic, Thinking

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• Our feelings probably are not less strong at fifty than they were ten or fifteen years before; but they have changed their objects, and dwell on far different prospects. At five-and-thirty a man thinks of what his own existence is; when the maturity of age has grown into its autumn, he is wrapt up in that of others. The loss of wife or child then becomes more deplorable, as being impossible to repair; for no fresh connection can give us back the companion of our earlier years, nor a "new-sprung race" compensate for that, whose career we hoped to see run.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Running, Strong, Children

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1835). “Lodore”, p.45

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• Life, within doors, has few pleasanter prospects than a neatly-arranged and well-provisioned breakfast-table.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Doors, Breakfast, Tables

  1851 The House of the Seven Gables, ch.7.

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• For wheresoe'er I turn my ravish'd eyes, Gay gilded scenes and shining prospects rise, Poetic fields encompass me around, And still I seem to tread on classic ground.

  Joseph Addison

  Eye, Gay, Poetry

  'Letter from Italy' (1704)

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• Learn to sell. In business you’re always selling: to your prospects, investors and employees. To be the best salesperson put yourself in the shoes of the person to whom you’re selling. Don’t sell your product. Solve their problems.

  Mark Cuban

  Business, Shoes, Problem

  FaceBook post by Mark Cuban from Apr 28, 2015

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• The less serious running of any description which an athlete indulges in before eighteen, the better for his future prospects.

  Alfred Shrubb

  Running, Athlete, Indulge In

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• Why do we not exhaust the heritage of the ages, spiritual and material for our immediate pleasure, and let posterity go hang? So far as simple rationality is concerned, self-interest can advance no argument against the appetite of present possessors. Yet within some of us, a voice that is not the demand of self-interest or pure rationality says that we have no right to give ourselves enjoyment at the expense of our ancestors' memory and our descendants' prospects. We hold our present advantages only in trust.

  Russell Kirk

  Spiritual, Memories, Simple

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• In the House, Republican prospects have been buoyed by several successful rounds of redistricting, which have sharply reduced the number of competitive seats and given the Republicans a national advantage of at least a dozen seats.

  Thomas E. Mann

  Successful, Numbers, Perspective

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• Prospects of normalizing our relations with Russia look good.

  Eduard Shevardnadze

  Russia, Perspective, Looks

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• We paid off our debts, we learned some, made friends and returned in 1950 with a larger view of life. I had, however, no home, no income of any kind and no prospects whatsoever.

  James Black

  Home, Views, Perspective

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• Faced with a new mutation in an organism, or a fundamental change in its living conditions, the biologist is frequently in no position whatever to predict its future prospects. He has to wait and see. For instance, the hairy mammoth seems to have been an admirable animal, intelligent and well-accoutered. Now that it is extinct, we try to understand why it failed. I doubt that any biologist thinks he could have predicted that failure. Fitness and survival are by nature estimates of past performance.

  George Wald

  Future, Science, Thinking

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• As distant prospects please us, but when near We find but desert rocks and fleeting air

  Samuel Garth

  Rocks, Air, Desert

  Sir Samuel Garth, Samuel Johnson (1807). “The Poetical Works of Sir Samuel Garth: With the Life of the Author, by Samuel Johnson”, p.44

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• If you don’t aim for the best prospects, you’re likely to do business with any prospect.

  Todd Duncan

  Aim, Ifs

  Todd Duncan (2002). “High Trust Selling: Make More Money in Less Time with Less Stress”, p.133, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Why did I start with them? Why do any of us choose one company over another as an employer? The money? At the beginning they all offer more or less the same and no one know how it will go after that. I guess it is often not so much your prospects at a particular firm, because these are essentially unknowable, but whether people will think you have done well to get the job there, that determines you choice. That was largely it in my case. It was really the prestige. They gave good letterhead.

  Elliot Perlman

  Jobs, Thinking, People

  Elliot Perlman (1999). “The Reasons I Won't be Coming: Stories”, Riverhead Books (Hardcover)

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• The life prospects of an American are more dependent on the income and education of his parents than in any of the other advanced industrial countries.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Country, Parent, Income

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I was spending a lot of time in Mumbai after I met my husband, who is Indian, and while parts of the city were prospering like crazy, I couldn't quite make out how the new wealth had changed the prospects of the majority of city residents who lived in slums. So after a few years I stopped wondering and started reporting.

  Katherine Boo

  Husband, Crazy, Years

  "The whorl of poverty". Interview with Elizabeth Taylor, www.chicagotribune.com. May 18, 2012.

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• I am convinced that the public, large majority of the Greek people, realize that policies pursued in the past and the market practices have to be changed, in order to improve the prospects of the Greek economy. So there is, I think, strong public support despite the increases in social tensions.

  Lucas Papademos

  Strong, Past, Thinking

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• Your situation and prospects only seem hopeless because you have ideas of hope. Knock off that hope and the crippling feelings of helplessness go with it.

  U.G. Krishnamurti

  Ideas, Feelings, Hopeless

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• I didn't have any great job prospects.

  Rickie Lee Jones

  Jobs, Great Job

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