Chandru

“Fear and hope remain the same; therefore the study of the psychology of speculators is as valuable as it ever was. Weapons change, but strategy remains strategy, on the New York Stock Exchange as on the battlefield. I think the clearest summing up of the whole thing was expressed by Thomas F. Woodlock when he declared: "The principles of successful stock speculation are based on the supposition that people will continue in the future to make the mistakes that they have made in the past.”
― Edwin Lefèvre, Reminiscences of a Stock Operator

“The real test of ‘knowledge’ is not whether it is true, but whether it empowers us.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“As he caught his footing, his head fell back, and the Milky Way flowed down inside him with a roar.”
― Yasunari Kawabata, Snow Country

“it is much more common that we overestimate our knowledge than that we underestimate it.”
― Rolf Dobelli, The Art of Thinking Clearly: The Secrets of Perfect Decision-Making