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“Like most trends, at the beginning it's driven by fundamentals, at some point speculation takes over. What the wise man does in the beginning, the fool does in the end.”

Men Doe Ends Wise Fool Fundamentals Driven Trends Speculation

Author:Warren Buffett

“Our behavior is driven by a fundamental core belief: the desire, and the ability, of an organization to continuously learn from any source, anywhere; and to rapidly convert this learning into action is its ultimate competitive advantage.”

Action Desire Belief Ability Source Behavior Advantage Ultimate Organization Fundamentals Driven Core Competitive Advantage Core Beliefs

Book:Jack Welch Speaks: Wit and Wisdom from the World's Greatest Business Leader

Source: Jack Welch Speaks: Wit and Wisdom from the World's Greatest Business Leader

“The most fundamental reason that even businesspeople underestimate the importance of sales is the systematic effort to hide it at every level of every field in a world secretly driven by it.”

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Author:Peter Thiel

“Our traditional systems of decision-making are just not up to preventing changes in fundamental earth systems that are driven by a constant barrage of individually negligible emissions of an invisible, odorless gas, by billions of people all over the world.”

People World Earth Decision Fundamentals Constant Driven Billions Invisible Traditional Gas Decision Making Emissions Preventing

Author:Dale Jamieson

“I spent 20 years doing research on regular and irregular verbs, not because I'm an obsessive language lover but because it seemed to me that they tapped into a fundamental distinction in language processing, indeed in cognitive processing, between memory lookup and rule-driven computation.”

Years Language Memories Lovers Research Fundamentals Driven Distinction Obsessive Verbs Cognitive Processing Computation Irregular Verbs

Author:Steven Pinker

“In a time in which Communist regimes have been rightfully discredited and yet alternatives to neoliberal capitalist societies are unwisely dismissed, I defend the fundamental claim of Marxist theory: there must be countervailing forces that defend people's needs against the brutality of profit driven capitalism.”

People Needs Has Beens Force Theory Capitalism Claims Fundamentals Profit Driven Alternatives Communist Capitalist Regimes Brutality Marxist Marxist Theory

Author:Cornel West

“Cutting off fundamental, curiosity-driven science is like eating the seed corn. We may have a little more to eat next winter but what will we plant so we and our children will have enough to get through the winters to come?”

May Children Littles Enough Next Cutting Eating Our Children Fundamentals Plant Curiosity Winter Seeds Driven Corn Cutting Off

Book:The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

Source: The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

“I steal into their dreams," he said. "I steal into their most shameful thoughts, I'm in every shiver, every spasm of their souls, I steal into their hearts, I scrutinize their most fundamental beliefs, I scan their irrational impulses, their unspeakable emotions, I sleep in their lungs during the summer and their muscles during the winter, and all of this I do without the least effort, without intending to, without asking or seeking it out, without constraints, driven only by love and devotion.”

“Economists who adhere to rational-expectations models of the world will never admit it, but a lot of what happens in markets is driven by pure stupidity - or, rather, inattention, misinformation about fundamentals, and an exaggerated focus on currently circulating stories.”

World Stories Happens Focus Pure Models Expectations Economics Fundamentals Stupidity Driven Rational Finance Conspiracy Economist Exaggerated Admitting Misinformation Inattention

Author:Robert J. Shiller