#estimate

Never underestimate the effectiveness of a straight cash bribe. ↗

— Claud Cockburn

#cash #effectiveness #never #never underestimate #straight

I ordered each man to be presented with something, as strings of ten or a dozen glass beads apiece, and thongs of leather, all which they estimated highly; those which came on board I directed should be fed with molasses. ↗

— Christopher Columbus

#beads #board #came #directed #dozen

I think for the last fifteen, twenty years or so, Hollywood has underestimated the appeal of the Western. I think there is still a huge market. ↗

— Barry Corbin

#fifteen #hollywood #huge #huge market #i

The climate-studies people who work with models always tend to overestimate their models. They come to believe models are real and forget they are only models. ↗

— Freeman Dyson

#believe #come #forget #models #only

Most of us would never consider getting our car repaired without first receiving an estimate of the charges, but this is exactly what we do when we need to go to a hospital for treatment. ↗

— Dan Lipinski

#charges #consider #estimate #exactly #first

The Australian people want to help build this country into a great nation. This budget... has not realized the capacity of the Australian people. It has underestimated them. It has let us down. ↗

— Lionel K. Murphy

#budget #build #capacity #country #down

I think there has been this increasing misperception that kids will not respond to something because it's also for adults. I think that often that tends to get underestimated. ↗

— Christopher Nolan

#because #been #get #i #i think

It's estimated that by 2030 there will be virtually no unskilled jobs in the British economy. ↗

— Lucy Powell

#economy #estimated #jobs #unskilled #virtually

We want to get 80%-85% of predictions right, not 100%. Or else we calibrated our estimates in the wrong way. ↗

— Nate Silver

#estimates #get #our #predictions #right

The Russians have a lot at stake, and the power of Moscow pride should never be underestimated. ↗

— Bob Schaffer

#moscow #never #power #pride #russians