Quotes About Predicting Success

#1. Reduce the number of lawyers. They are like beavers - they get in the middle of the stream and dam it up.

Donald Rumsfeld

#2. I have become increasingly convinced that the past records of mutual fund managers are essentially worthless in predicting future success. The few examples of consistently superior performance occur no more frequently than can be expected by chance.

Burton Malkiel

#3. Imagining the future may be more important than analysing the past.

C. K. Prahalad

#4. I typically don't get into predicting the success of my projects. I've been involved with a lot of projects that I thought should have really gained notoriety and furthered my career, only to be met with the cold grasp of disappointment. So I typically stay away from predicting how a film will do.

Bokeem Woodbine

#5. Because they were both young, she was intolerant and he was stubborn.

David Eddings

#6. Credentials are critical if you want to do something professional. If you want to become a doctor or lawyer or teacher or professor, there is a credentialing process. But there are a lot of other things where it's not clear they're that important.

Peter Thiel

#7. You are the deer shot through with arrows whose heart grows cold for want of being taken.

Kathleen Kent

#8. I don't think I've had any great success in predicting politics or social change, nor have I really tried.

Paul Krugman

#9. I wouldn't trade horses with anybody.

Robby Albarado

#10. This month past. They had been engaged for six months (I don't think a single one of them had any clear idea of time, as we at the end of countless ages have. They still belonged to the beginnings of time - had no inherited experience to teach them as it were), and of course, as long as there was a

Joseph Conrad

#11. I always thought I'd be the one to go first. The world might be mourning an Everly Brother, but I'm mourning my brother Phil.

Don Everly