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If a speculator is correct half of the time, he is hitting a good average. Even being right 3 or 4 times out of 10 should yield a person a fortune if he has the sense to cut his losses quickly on the ventures where he is wrong.
by Bernard Baruch (Businessman, American , born in 1870) keywords: average, being, correct, cut, even, fortune, good, half, his, hitting, losses, out, person, quickly, right, sense, should, speculator, time, times, ventures, where, wrong , yield If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.
by Henry David Thoreau (Author, American , born in 1817) topics: Nature keywords: bald, before, being, citizen, danger, day, days, deemed, each, earth, enterprising, half, her, his, industrious, loafer, love, making, man, off, regarded, speculator, spends, them, those, time, walks , woods