Edgar Fiedler Quotes

#1. Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers - six if one went to Harvard.

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#2. Whenever our sins press hard against us, whenever Satan would drive us to despair, we must hold up this shield, that God does not want us to be overwhelmed in everlasting destruction, for He has ordained His Son to be the salvation of the world.

John Calvin

#3. The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.

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#4. I'm not trying to make excuses for David Seaman, but I think the
lights may have been a problem ...

Kevin Keegan

#5. For economist the real world is often a special case.

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#6. At the end of the archana, prostrate, then get up and, remaining on the same spot, turn around clockwise 3 times just as if circling a temple, then bow to the Lord.

Mata Amritanandamayi

#7. Economists state their GNP growth projections to the nearest tenth of a percentage point to prove they have a sense of humor.

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#8. If you have to forecast, forecast often.

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#9. He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass.

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#10. Two thoughts cannot coexist at the same time: if the clear light of mindfulness is present, there is no room for mental twilight.

Nyanaponika Thera

#11. Forecasters tend to learn less and less about more and more, until in the end they know nothing about everything.

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#12. I can find confirmation for just about anything, the

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#13. We know from daily life that we exist for other people first of all, for whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.

Albert Einstein

#14. Gloucester's not some chi-chi tourist town. It's a working-class seaport: a no-kidding-around down-and-dirty place.

Israel Horovitz

#15. When you know absolutely nothing about the topic, make your forecast by asking a carefully selected probability sample of 300 others who don't know the answer either.

Edgar Fiedler