Edgar Fiedler quotes
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“Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers - six if one went to Harvard..”
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“If you have to forecast, forecast often..”
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“The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers..”
-- Edgar FiedlerSource : Across the Board The Three Rs of Economic Forecasting-Irrational, Irrelevant and Irreverent June 1977
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“Economists state their GNP growth projections to the nearest tenth of a percentage point to prove they have a sense of humor.”
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“For economist the real world is often a special case.”
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“Forecasters tend to learn less and less about more and more, until in the end they know nothing about everything.”
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“When you know absolutely nothing about the topic, make your forecast by asking a carefully selected probability sample of 300 others who don't know the answer either.”
-- Edgar Fiedler
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“You will either step forward into growth or you will step back into safety.”
Source : "Creating We : Change I-Thinking to We-Thinking and Build a Healthy, Thriving Organization". Book by Judith Glaser (p. 144), 2007.
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“Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won't answer the door.”
Source : "Abel Ferrara: 'I made Scarface look like Mary Poppins'" by Andrew Purcell, www.theguardian.com. August 5, 2010.
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