Dean Williams quotes

“Confidence in a forecast rises with the amount of information that goes into it. But the accuracy of the forecast stays the same.”
-- Dean Williams

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“Expertise is great, but it has a bad side effect: It tends to create the inability to accept new ideas.”
-- Dean Williams

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“Breathing will change your life! Breathing is the most important thing you will ever do.”
-- Dean Williams

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“But when that information travels only to a privileged few, when it is used to profit at the expense of the investing public, when that information comes by way of favored access rather than by acumen, insight or diligence, we must ask, 'Whose interest is really being served?'.”

“The best approach here if at all possible is to use supervisory and regulatory methods to restrain undue risk-taking and to make sure the system is resilient in case an asset price bubble bursts in the future.”

“Buy not on optimism, but on arithmetic.”

“As in roulette, same is true of the stock trader, who will find that the expense of trading weights the dice heavily against him.”

“There's this group online that I frequent. It's a group of prop crazies just like me called the Replica Props Forum, and it's people who trade, make and travel in information about movie props.”

“Risk is just an expensive substitute for information.”

Source : "The Upside". "HBR IdeaCast" with Paul Michelman, hbr.org.

“The main ingredient of the first quantum revolution, wave-particle duality, has led to inventions such as the transistor and the laser that are at the root of the information society.”

“You go back to the gym and you just do it again and again until you get it right.”

“Watch every detail that affects the accuracy of your work.”

“How or by what magic is it, that we convey our thoughts to one another with such case and accuracy?”