Barry Ritholtz Quotes
Rather than engage in the sort of selective retention that so many investors tend to do and pretend mistakes never happened, I prefer to 'own' them. This allows me to learn from them and, with any luck, avoid making the same errors again.
Quotes to Explore
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President Bush has a track record of making the right decisions when it comes to national security.
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For me everything in the film was gradually building, becoming more emotional, so it helped. At the end of it all I was emotionally drained. At that point I took Rose's view, that this has to happen, there's nothing I can do about it.
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I have to be realistic about what I can and can't do. So whatever I do has to really be worth it. I like to master the things I do.
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New York is such a versatile city, and there's always something new to discover.
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I am always the one who is responsible for anything bad that happens in Indian cricket. Everything that happens is because of me.
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I'm a couch potato. I love to stay in and just watch a DVD with the missus. Or we all go over to Louis's house and watch 'X Factor.'
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It's like everybody is shooting something, and everybody's a filmmaker; everybody can shoot a cat video and post it. So the big thing now is - for people that have talent and have something to say, and are creative, and are capable of making something good - is how do they get attention to it?
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Delaying and withholding tactics, red herrings, partial and doubtful outcomes are stock in trade for fiction writers, especially crime writers.
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Being the vice-captain, you see a lot of things on the field. You have to try and help the captain as much as you can and lead by example on the field. Small things like getting a run-out or taking a catch makes the other boys try and lift their standards. So yes, I do have an important role, even if I'm not captain.
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I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
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No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.
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You know, Saint Augustine said our hearts are restless 'til they rest in thee. And I had a restlessness in my heart. Something just wasn't quite right.
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I'd like to show people that if you put the hard work in and you believe in yourself, then you can do whatever you want to.
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Every change in a team can turn into an opportunity for players to show themselves.
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The Nobel Peace Prize has always been a joke - albeit a grim one. Alfred Bernhard Nobel famously invented dynamite and felt sorry about it.
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I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.
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You walk past people in streets, or they serve you in shops, and you know nothing about the horrors they may be living with.
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I just butcher a book. Everything I underline I assume is important to me.
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Neither the adventure of goodness nor the pursuit of righteousness gets headlines.
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My husband works in the music industry and he's always the first to know about great new bands, so I end up seeming really with it because I'll be listening to an up-and-coming band before everyone else hears about it.
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While 'Friends' was about a 20-something population and what they were going through, they were also dealing with issues with their family.
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Most teachers we work with are intrigued to learn that abused and neglected students are likely to interpret any deviation from routine as danger and that their extreme reactions usually are expressions of traumatic stress.
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It does everything Unix does only less reliably.
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Rather than engage in the sort of selective retention that so many investors tend to do and pretend mistakes never happened, I prefer to 'own' them. This allows me to learn from them and, with any luck, avoid making the same errors again.
