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Tag Name "Forecasts" (23)

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Forecasts may tell you a great deal about the forecaster they tell you nothing about the future.
Warren Buffett
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Forecasts usually tell us more of the forecaster than of the forecast
Warren Buffett
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If you spend more than 13 minutes analyzing economic and market forecasts, you've wasted 10 minutes
Peter Lynch
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The future is better dealt with using assumptions than forecasts.
Russell L. Ackoff
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Even good excuses, really good ones, don't help very much. Explanations, on the other hand, are both scarce and useful. And accurate forecasts and insightful intuition are priceless.
Seth Godin
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We've long felt that the only value of stock forecasters is to make fortune tellers look good. Even now, Charlie and I continue to believe that short-term market forecasts are poison and should be kept locked up in a safe place, away from children and also from grown-ups who behave in the market like children.
Warren Buffett
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William Tavener never heeded ominous forecasts in the domestic horizon, and he never looked for a storm until it broke.
Willa Cather
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It is absurd to think that the general public can ever make money out of market forecasts.
Benjamin Graham
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Thick February mists cling heavily To the dead earth and to each leafless tree, And closer down upon the hilltops draw, Dull forecasts there of bright, sure-coming spring Yet the heart gathers hope and strange delight From this dear, unlovely, wished-for sight Of leaden-misted twilights lengthening.
Emma Lazarus
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Make then your forecasts, my lords Astrologers, with your slavish physicians, by means of those astrolabes with which you seek to discern the fantastic nine moving spheres in these you finally imprison your own minds, so that you appear to me but as parrots in a cage, while I watch you dancing up and down, turning and hopping within those circles.
Giordano Bruno
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The MD is well aware that the forecasts are no good but he needs them for planning purposes.
Kenneth Arrow
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We ignore outlooks and forecasts... we're lousy at it and we admit it ... everyone else is lousy too, but most people won't admit it.
Martin J. Whitman
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Precise forecasts masquerade as accurate ones.
Nate Silver
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The IEA forecasts that production from oilfields, which have started production up to 2011, will nearly drop two-thirds by 2035.
Peter Voser
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Never make forecasts, especially about future.
Samuel Goldwyn
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One of the soundest rules to remember when making forecasts in the field of economics is that whatever is to happen is happening already.
Sylvia Porter
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I don't read economic forecasts. I don't read the funny papers.
Warren Buffett
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I believe that economists put decimal points in their forecasts to show they have a sense of humor.
William Gilmore Simms
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It is almost possible to predict one or two days in advance, within a rather broad range of probability, what the weather is going to be it is even thought that it will not be impossible to publish daily forecasts, which would be very useful to soci.
Antoine Lavoisier
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When all the experts and forecasts agree, something else is going to happen
Bob Farrell
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The affairs of this world are so shifting and depend on so many accidents, that it is hard to form any judgment concerning the future nay, we see from experience that the forecasts even of the wise almost always turn out false.
Francesco Guicciardini
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Trying to keep up with health advice can feel like surfing the Net for weather forecasts: what you find is always changing, often contradictory and rarely encouraging.
Julian Baggini
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I'm an economist, I do a lot of forecasting, and I'm probably one of the most successful forecasters in terms of very specific kinds of forecasts.
Lyndon LaRouche