Barry Ritholtz Quotes
Outcome is simply the final score: Who won the game; what numbers came up in a roll of the dice; how high did a stock go. Outcome is the result, regardless of the method used to achieve it. It is not controllable.
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I have 179 children that I take care of full-time: close to 40 in Uganda and the rest in Sudan.
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I'm very proud of my Nigerian heritage. I wasn't fortunate enough to be raised in a heavy Nigerian environment, because my parents were always working. My father was with D.C. Cabs and my mother worked in fast food and was a nurse.
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Hair is a huge part of who I am and what I obsess over - I've had long hair my entire life.
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We begin to change the world when we stimulate long-term prosperity using technology. There is not a problem that's large enough that innovation and entrepreneurship can't solve.
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It's a hard life... but if I could, I would do it all again.
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One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
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A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
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Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.
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Most big popcorn movies are 'bad guy does something to good guy, good guy gets revenge on bad guy, sets the world right, and moves on.' And 'Ender's Game' is just not that simple, so it's an exciting challenge. It's a little terrifying, and let's see how audiences respond.
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There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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I auditioned for 'The Office,' and I don't know if it was a role I could do, but I liked the character. You do one take, and you're reading with a person who's just sitting in a chair and not really... you're not playing off someone, which is what I like to do. I like to play around and find the moment.
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Our goal definitely isn't to sell Stripe.
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When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others.
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Everyone asks me if I'm the princess or if my brothers beat me up. The younger ones I can deck pretty easily. With the older ones, it's harder.
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The biggest misconception about me is the bad-boy image that everyone stuck me into due to my tattoos, drug days and the constant changes I make with my hair color.
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So if Arizona sees the federal government isn't assuming its responsibilities, it creates local laws. But migration and keeping security on the borders is not a local or state issue, it's a federal issue.
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To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry.
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I think, first of all, you know, Washington has a bad habit of a very short attention span.
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I learn the most from trial and error. I learn about what I'd like to be able to do from people like Barbara Mason. Saying I want to sing like Barbara Mason and doing it, it's two very different scenarios.
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When I became a man, I put away childish things and got more elaborate and expensive childish things from France and Japan.
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The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind ahead even more than teamwork.
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Everyone has their own different life experiences which make them who they are. No two people's life experiences are the same. And mine are just unique to me.
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Outcome is simply the final score: Who won the game; what numbers came up in a roll of the dice; how high did a stock go. Outcome is the result, regardless of the method used to achieve it. It is not controllable.
