Luis Oliveira

“Kahneman notes in his book on investor psychology, experience is not a very good teacher in investing and markets. 2 As human beings, we often extract the wrong lessons from past successes, don’t learn enough from our failures, and sometimes delude ourselves into remembering things that never happened.”
― Aswath Damodaran, Narrative and Numbers: The Value of Stories in Business

“The quality of our lives is the sum of decision quality plus luck.”
― Annie Duke, Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts

“I am naturally drawn to numbers but one of the ironies of working with numbers is that the more I work with them, the more skeptical I become about purely number-driven arguments.”
― Aswath Damodaran, Narrative and Numbers: The Value of Stories in Business

“in the hands of a skilled number cruncher, this bias can be hidden far better with numbers than with stories.”
― Aswath Damodaran, Narrative and Numbers: The Value of Stories in Business