#outcomes

You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#bureaucrats #everything #never #nothing #outcomes

It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires a great deal of strength to decide what to do. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

#desired-outcomes #projects #decisions

If each of your time steps is one week long, you are not modeling the stock price terribly well over a one-week time period, because you are saying that there are only two possible outcomes. ↗

— John Hull

#each #long #modeling #only #our time

One important measurement issue concerns the fat tails problem that I mentioned earlier. VAR is concerned with extreme outcomes. If the tails of the probability distributions we are using are too thin, our VAR measures are likely to be too low. ↗

— John Hull

#concerns #earlier #extreme #fat #i

Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational. ↗

— Hugh Mackay

#complex #irrational #life #messy #nothing

The U.S. routinely ranks lower than other countries in health outcomes such as infant mortality. ↗

— Tammy Baldwin

#health #infant #infant mortality #lower #mortality

Of all the nasty outcomes predicted for women's liberation... none was more alarming, from a feminist point of view, than the suggestion that women would eventually become just like men. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#become #eventually #feminist #just #liberation

As a lawyer, as a private citizen, you see a lot of injustice. You see a lot of people who should have been punished and are not, and people who were punished wrongfully are not vindicated. Fiction is sort of a way to set the record straight, and let people at least believe that justice can be achieved and the right outcomes can occur. ↗

— David Baldacci

#been #believe #citizen #fiction #injustice

I think President Obama is a committed, practicing nonideologue. He's consumed by neither tactics nor ideology. He is more concerned about outcomes than he is about process and categorizations. ↗

— David Axelrod

#committed #concerned #consumed #i #i think

I think that over the last few decades, we have seen better economic outcomes than in the past. ↗

— Martin Feldstein

#decades #economic #few #i #i think