“The New Finance focused on the market's major systematic mistake. In failing to appreciate the strength of competitive forces in a market economy, it over estimates the length of the short run. In doing so, it overreacts to records of success and failure for individual companies, driving the prices of successful firms too high and their unsuccessful counterparts too low.” RunningIndividualForceMistakeCompanyEconomySuccessfulRecordsFailingMajorsLowsAppreciateFocusedDrivingFinanceFirmLengthSuccess And FailureSystematicUnsuccessfulCounterpartsMarket Economy Author:Robert Haugen
“So the laws of good driving forbade you to go off the magic ribbon except in extreme emergencies. You were ethically entitled to several inches of margin at the right-hand edge; and the man approaching you was entitled to an equal number of inches; which left a remainder of inches between the two projectiles as they shot by. It sounds risky as one tells it, but the heavens are run on the basis of similar calculations, and while collisions do happen, they leave time enough in between for universes to be formed, and successful careers conducted by men of affairs.” MenTwoEnoughHandsHappensRunningLawUniverseLeftHeavenSoundNumbersCareersSuccessfulMagicHe ManEqualShotsBasesAffairEdgesExtremesDrivingInchesEntitledEmergenciesMarginsCalculationsCollisionRibbonsSuccessful CareerProjectile Book:Oil! Source: Oil!
“Americans still believe they are cut out to be successful-in everything: love, love-making, luck, luck-giving, money-making, sense-making, cancer-avoiding, clothes-wearing, car-driving, and so on.” GivingBelieveStillsAmericaSuccessfulCuttingCarClothesLuckCancerDrivingMaking MoneyMake SenseBeing SuccessfulAvoidingLove MakingGiving MoneyCar Driving Book:I used to believe I had forever, now I'm not so sure Source: I used to believe I had forever, now I'm not so sure
“I don't think films about elderly people have been made very much. I think of Cocoon and Driving Miss Daisy. But they always seem to be fairly successful, so it's a bit baffling as to why everybody has to be treated as if they were five-years-old.” PeopleIfsThinkingYearsHas BeensMadeSeemsFilmBitsSuccessfulFiveMissingDrivingTreatedFive YearsElderlyDaisiesFive Year OldsCocoons Author:Maggie Smith
“My parents came from an environment where everyone knew that the way to be successful was to get a great education, and that was going to be your ticket in life. If you could succeed in education then you would succeed in life, so that was sort of the driving force behind my parents' upbringing, and therefore kind of how they brought me up.” IfsWayKindForceParentBehindsSuccessfulEnvironmentSucceedDrivingBeing SuccessfulTicketsUpbringingGreat EducationDriving Force Author:Michelle Rhee
“Successful entrepreneurs find the balance between listening to their inner voice and staying persistent in driving for success - because sometimes success is waiting right across from the transitional bump that's disguised as failure.” SometimesWaitingVoiceSuccessfulListeningBalanceEntrepreneurDrivingStayingPersistentInner VoiceBumpsSuccessful Entrepreneurs Author:Naveen Jain
“As far as standup, everybody has a vehicle they are driving. If what you do works, it's like playing golf. If you can master that one swing over and over again, you will be successful. That's what standup is. You have to have a central move and it has to be yours. You have to own your comedy, own what you do.” IfsMovingSuccessfulComedyMastersGolfDrivingBeing SuccessfulWorking ItVehicleSwingsPlaying Golf Author:J. B. Smoove