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“A young financial writer once brought ridicule upon himself by stating that a certain company had nothing to commend it except excellent earnings. Well, there are companies whose earnings are excellent but whose stocks I would never recommend. In selecting investments, I attach prime importance to the men behind them. I'd rather buy brains and character than earnings. Earnings can be good one year and poor the next. But if you put your money into securities run by men combining conspicuous brains and unimpeachable character, the likelihood is that the financial results will prove satisfactory.”

“If you know how to value businesses, it's crazy to own 50 stocks or 40 stocks or 30 stocks, probably because there aren't that many wonderful businesses understandable to a single human being in all likelihood. To forego buying more of some super-wonderful business and instead put your money into #30 or #35 on your list of attractiveness just strikes Charlie and me as madness.”

Ifs Knows Humans Values Human Beings Know How Wonderful Crazy Madness Investing Strikes Lists Buying Charlie Likelihood Attractiveness Diversification

Author:Warren Buffett

“Smart tech investor thinks about: a) future product roadmap, b) bottoms-up market size & growth, c) talent and skill of team. Essentially you are valuing things that have not yet happened, and the likelihood of the CEO and team being able to make them happen. Finance people find this appalling, but investors who do this well can make a lot of money.”

People Thinking Wells Happens Able Growth Happened Team Talent Products Skills Smart Bottom Investing Size Finance Investors Lots Of Money Ceo Likelihood

Author:Marc Andreessen

“A thing is either alive or it isn’t; there is nothing that is almost alive. There is but the remotest possibility of the origin of life by spontaneous generation, and every likelihood that Arrhenius is right when he dares to claim that life is a cosmic phenomenon, something that drifts between the spheres, like light, and like light transiently descends upon those fit to receive it.”

Light Life Is Alive Generations Possibility Fit Claims Dare Phenomenon Spheres Cosmic Spontaneous Likelihood Origin Of Life

Author:Donald C. Peattie

“As a doctor, as a man of science, I can tell you there is no such thing as curses Everything just happens as a question of probability. The statistical likelihood of a specific event.”

Men I Can Happens Science Events Doctors Curse Probability Likelihood

Author:Andrew Schneider

“An atom is a hierarchy of different states of information that define the statistical likelihood of finding a particle here or there at the time of observation.”

Different States Information Findings Observation Atoms Hierarchy Particles Likelihood

Author:Deepak Chopra

“Revenge tries to solve the problem of vulnerability. If I strike back, I transfer vulnerability from myself to the other. And yet by striking back I produce a world in which my vulnerability to injury is increased by the likelihood of another strike. So it seems as if I'm getting rid of my vulnerability and instead locating it with the other, but actually I'm heightening the vulnerability of everyone and I'm heightening the possibility of violence that happens between us.”

Ifs World Trying Problem Seems Happens Violence Possibility Produce Solve Revenge Strikes Vulnerability Injury Transfers Likelihood Strike Back

Author:Judith Butler

“If someone is difficult to talk to, if someone cannot communicate clearly, it's a real problem in terms of their likelihood to work out.”

Ifs Real Problem Difficult Term Team Communicate Work Out Real Problems Likelihood

Author:Sam Altman

“Don't decide that you're going to be a writer or musician and just expect it to happen because it's a big gamble and a lot less predictable than a conventional job. But you do increase the likelihood of success by working as hard as you can and holding yourself to the highest standard you can muster.”

Hard Bigs Happens Jobs Highest Musician Standards Increase Conventional Predictable Gamble Likelihood Muster

Author:Max Bemis

“The likelihood of getting lost is directly proportional to the number of times the direction-giver says, 'You can't miss it'.”

Funny Lost Numbers Missing Travel Insightful Giver Likelihood Getting Lost

Author:Hal Roach

“It drives me crazy to do readings of my books, because if I read anything I've written in the past, I'd like to almost rewrite everything. If I could, I'd completely rewrite Fargo Rock City, and every sentence would be just slightly different. In all likelihood, most of them wouldn't be any better. Some of them would just be changed back to whatever form they used to be, before I second-guessed myself the first time.”

Ifs Firsts Book Different Would Be Past Form Used Reading Cities Written Crazy Rocks Changed First Time Sentences Used To Be If I Could Likelihood Drive Me Crazy Fargo

Author:Chuck Klosterman

“There is no likelihood of our being able to suppress humanity's aggressive tendencies... Complete suppression of man's aggressive tendencies is not an issue; what we may try is to direct it into a channel other than that of warfare.”

Men Trying May Able Humanity Issues Direct Tendencies Aggressive Warfare Suppression Likelihood

Author:Sigmund Freud

“Knowledge carefully recorded is knowledge available in time of need. Spiritually sensitive information should be kept in a sacred place that communicates to the Lord how you treasure it. This practice enhances the likelihood of receiving further light.”

Needs Should Light Lord Practice Information Sacred Communicate Available Treasure Sensitive Receiving Likelihood Time Of Need Sacred Places

Author:Richard G. Scott

“The one element that stands out most clearly among our peak performers is their virtually unassailable belief in the likelihood of their own success.”

Belief Elements Performers Standing Out Likelihood

Author:Charles Garfield

“I would define independent film as a movie that is not financed by any of the smaller film companies. Because then, those are movies that in all likelihood are made without stars. And then they have to rely just on the material.”

Made Film Stars Company Materials Independent Rely Independent Film Likelihood

Author:Steven Shainberg

“Reducing the thinking required to take the next action increases the likelihood of the desired behavior occurring unconsciously.”

Thinking Action Next Behavior Increase Reducing Likelihood

Book:Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products

Source: Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products

“Companies leverage two basic pulleys of human behavior to increase the likelihood of an action occuring: the ease of performing an action and the psychological motivation to do it.”

Humans Two Action Motivation Company Behavior Increase Psychological Ease Performing Human Behavior Likelihood Pulleys

Book:Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products

Source: Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products

“But the thing is if you've got an hour to sit down in front of a television, then the likelihood is that you've probably got two hours. So why wouldn't you, if you're enjoying it not want to watch the other one? And so, this is the future. Ten episodes at once is what everyone wants, and then it's up to you how you spread those out”

Ifs Want Two Enjoy Hours Watches Fronts Television Ten Spread Episodes Up To You Likelihood

Author:Christian Cooke

“...there are two (inter alia) two ways of ruining a society - namely, letting the market "be the sole director of the fate of human beings," and allowing technology to permeate every aspect of our lives. In the United States, both of these developments have converged, creating a huge chasm between rich and poor and pushing us over the edge into a kind of antisociety... While these developments have been widely hailed as the dawn of a golden age, the likelihood is that they actually amount to a death knell, the beginning of the end of the American empire.”

“If an asset has cash flow or the likelihood of cash flow in the near term and is not purely dependment on what a future buyer might pay, then it's an investment. If an asset's value is totally dependent on the amount a future buyer might pay, then its purchase is speculation.”

Ifs Might Values Term Pay Amount Flow Investment Dependent Assets Cash Speculation Likelihood Buyers Cash Flow

Author:Seth Klarman

“Do not accept principal risk while investing short-term cash: the greedy effort to earn a few extra basis points of yield inevitably leads to the incurrence of greater risk, which increases the likelihood of losses and severe illiquidity at precisely the moment when cash is needed to cover expenses, to meet commitments, or to make compelling long-term investments.”

“Like flossing, frequent engagement with a product, especially over a short period of time, increases the likelihood of forming new routines.”

Products Periods Increase Engagement Likelihood Flossing

Book:Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products

Source: Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products

“The 'hard swallow' built into science is this business about the Big Bang. ... This is the notion that the universe, for no reason, sprang from nothing in a single instant. ... Notice that this is the limit test for credulity. . . . It's the limit case for likelihood.”

Hard Reason Bigs Universe Cases Limits Built Tests Notion Instant No Reason Bangs Likelihood Credulity

Author:Terence McKenna

“The more men believe an idea to be true the greater the likelihood that the idea is mistaken. Those who are right usually stand alone.”

Men Believe Ideas Greater Being True Mistaken Stand Alone Likelihood

Author:Soren Kierkegaard

“Both we and the Soviets face the common threat of nuclear destruction and there is no likelihood that either capitalism or communism will survive a nuclear war.”

War Faces Common Capitalism Destruction Threat Nuclear Communism Nuclear War Likelihood Nuclear Destruction

Author:John Kenneth Galbraith

“The likelihood is that any English-speaking skier has more words for different types of snow than any inhabitant of Alaska or Greenland.”

Different Type Snow Alaska Likelihood English Speaking Skiers Greenland

Author:Larry Trask

“There's more likelihood of Ian Paisley being the next pope, than of me agreeing to a fix or a stitch-up.”

Next Pope Likelihood Stitches Paisley

Author:Rhodri Morgan

“Personally I do not believe in the likelihood of Persian oil deposits being worked at profit.”

Believe Profit Oil Persian Likelihood Deposits

Author:George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston

“The goal is not to just have rapists expelled from schools. I don't want rapists transferring schools. I don't want them out there, being able to commit these crimes. I want them to go to prison. But if you understand this crime and you understand what happens in the reporting of this crime and the support that a victim does or does not get, you realize that our legislation increases the likelihood that a young woman will go to the police in a timely manner and that the police will investigate and that they will be able to administer real justice in the criminal system.”

Ifs Want Doe Real Happens Able School Young Goal Realizing Justice Support Crime Increase Police Victim Prison Criminals Commit Young Women Legislation Likelihood Timely

Author:Claire McCaskill

“If you're really a good writer and deserve that honored position, then by God, you'll write, and you'll be read, and you'll be produced somehow. It just works that way. If you're just a simple ordinary day-to-day craftsman, no different than most, then the likelihood is that you probably won't make it in writing.”

Ifs Way Writing Different Simple Position Ordinary Deserve Day To Day Honored Good Writers Likelihood Craftsman Ordinary Days

Author:Rod Serling

“When you're listening to a recording, you're supposedly listening to some aspect of the past in the present as you travel slowly into the future, but you also know there's a very strong likelihood that the future of that recording, whether you made it or whether you're listening to a Led Zeppelin record, is going to continue probably far beyond where you are.”

Knows Made Past Strong Records Listening Aspect Made It Where You Are Very Strong Likelihood Zeppelins

Author:Will Oldham

“In quantum mechanics there is A causing B. The equations do not stand outside that usual paradigm of physics. The real issue is that the kinds of things you predict in quantum mechanics are different from the kinds of things you predict using general relativity. Quantum mechanics, that big, new, spectacular remarkable idea is that you only predict probabilities, the likelihood of one outcome or another. That's the new idea.”

“The major problem for America is we're losing two wars. We're losing in Afghanistan, we're losing in Iraq. And there seems very little likelihood that we're going to increase the number of troops we have in either place to the point that we can prevail.”

Littles Two War Problem Seems America Numbers Majors Losing Increase Iraq Afghanistan Troops Likelihood Major Problems

Author:Michael Scheuer

“If you ask which of the scenarios I think is most dangerous, though, I will give a different answer. In that form of the question, I regard a nuclear attack, terrorist-generated or otherwise, as the most threatening combination of likelihood and long-term damage to modern life today.”

Ifs Thinking Giving Long Different Today Form Asks Term Answers Modern Dangerous Regard Nuclear Terrorist Combination Long Term Damage Threatening Modern Life Scenarios Likelihood

Author:John L. Casti

“I think it's reasonable to say that even thought, in all likelihood, we have slightly different experiences of reality, they are similar enough to us not to clash. In other words, I'm not, it's very unlikely, in fact, let's say impossible, for you to say the situation in which you and I are in right now, relative to the machinery that is capturing this.”

Thinking Different Enough Facts Reality Situation Impossible Right Now Reasonable Relative Machinery Unlikely Clash Likelihood Different Experiences

Author:Antonio Damasio

“I think there's evil on both sides [of Syria], and I think that's one reason I don't want to be involved in civil war. I see things in personal terms. I just can't see sending one of my sons - or your son or daughter - to fight in a civil war, where on one side we have a dictator, who in all likelihood gassed his people.”

People Thinking Want War Reason Fighting Evil Sides Term Son Involved Daughter Civil War My Son Dictator Syria Both Sides Likelihood Your Son

Author:Rand Paul

“One does not avoid incompetence if one makes an attempt whose likelihood of success is too low. This seems little more than analytic: when the performance is in a domain that imposes standards of risk, attempts may or may not meet such standards. And the relevant competence of agents then includes reliably enough meeting those standards.”

Ifs May Littles Doe Enough Seems Risk Lows Standards Performances Meetings Agents Relevant Domain Competence Incompetence Likelihood Analytics

Author:Ernest Sosa

“Some people have set up sort of "gotcha" algorithms that apparently crawl through psychology articles and look for fraudulent p-values [a measure of the likelihood that experimental results weren't a fluke]. But they're including rounding errors that don't change the significance levels of the results, and they're doing it anonymously.”

People Looks Values Levels Results Psychology Errors Including Significance Articles Don't Change Likelihood Algorithms Flukes

Author:Susan Fiske

“Current organisms have a higher probability of sharing a single code if the common ancestry hypothesis is true than they'd have if the hypothesis of separate ancestry were true. That is, the simpler hypothesis has the higher likelihood in the technical sense of "likelihood" used in statistics.”

Ifs Used Common Higher Currents Code Statistics Organisms Probability Hypothesis Ancestry Likelihood

Author:Elliott Sober

“[Edward Snoden] has said many times that he's willing to come back and face trial if he can be guaranteed a fair trial, but the likelihood of that is so slim.”

Ifs Said Faces Willing Fairs Trials Likelihood Slim Fair Trial

Author:Zachary Quinto

“Knowing the identity of the leaker helps you analyze the likelihood that the material is real.”

Real Helping Knowing Identity Materials Likelihood

Author:Gene Weingarten

“I totally think that the likelihood upon this whole galaxy and universe, we are the only ones... I don't think we are.”

Thinking Whole Universe Galaxy Likelihood

Author:Da'Vine Joy Randolph

“I think we may very well, in many areas, get likelihood, but not certitude. We don't want certitude anyway, do we?”

Thinking Want Wells May Areas Likelihood Certitude

Author:Frank Moore Cross

“Change is a process which has to be managed. If it's managed and managed well in the interest of the nation and the people, the likelihood is that it will end well.”

People Ifs Wells Ends Nations Process Interest Likelihood

Author:Kofi Annan

“When people are rushed, they're stressed and you greatly increase the likelihood of being punitive and unilateral just because you're trying to grasp control.”

People Trying Increase Stressed Likelihood

Author:Ross W. Greene

“I will consider my time in the Senate a failure if we don't pass some meaningful legislation to reduce the likelihood that Sandy Hook ever happens again.”

Ifs Happens Meaningful My Time Senate Legislation Hook Likelihood Sandy Sandy Hook

Author:Chris Murphy

“The worst possible thing for any of us - no matter what our temptations, no matter what our mortal inclinations may be - is to become fixated with them, to dwell on them. When we do that, not only do we deny the other things that comprise us, but experience teaches that there will be an increased likelihood that eventually we will simply succumb to the inclination.”

May Matter Teach Worst No Matter What Deny Temptation Mortals Inclination Likelihood

Author:Lance B. Wickman

“I can only hope that Trump comes to realize the grave dangers of adopting a policy of confrontation toward Iran. Among these dangers is the likelihood that hardliners would again gain the upper hand in the governing process in Tehran, and the moderates who have sought to end national and regional tensions would be marginalized, or worse.”

I Can Ends Hands Would Be Process Realizing Danger Policy Trump Gains Graves Tension Iran Moderates Governing Confrontation Likelihood Adopting Marginalized Tehran Upper Hand

Author:Richard A. Falk

“Education spurs growth and unlocks potential. After all, a single year of primary education creates a 10 to 20 percent increase in a woman's wages later in life. Education lowers the risk of disease and decreases the likelihood that a child will fall into violence and crime. And a child born to a literate mother is 50 percent more likely to survive past age five. No country has achieved sustained growth without at least 40 percent literacy for its adults.”

Years Children Country Age Past Mother Fall Growth Born Five Violence Risk Crime Disease Percent Adults Increase Primaries Wages Literacy Spurs Decrease Likelihood Later In Life Primary Education

Author:Shakira

“The size of the U.S. middle class has been shrinking. Wages have been stagnant. We don't have those factory jobs that paid a living wage and enabled a family to have a home where the wife did not have to work. But we sent our factories abroad and there is no likelihood of getting them back. Equally worrisome is that some managerial jobs and professional jobs (such as lawyers) which support middle class life are threatened by automation.”

Has Beens Home Jobs Class Support Wife Middle Paid Size Lawyer Middle Class Factories Threatened Wages Stagnant Likelihood Shrinking Automation Living Wage Middle Class Life

Author:Philip Kotler

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