#picking

I'm the worst at picking what movies are going to do well. I have no idea. I'm really surprised if a movie I like does well. ↗

— Zooey Deschanel

#going #i #idea #like #movie

There are domains in which expertise is not possible. Stock picking is a good example. And in long-term political strategic forecasting, it's been shown that experts are just not better than a dice-throwing monkey. ↗

— Daniel Kahneman

#better #domains #example #expertise #experts

Mutual funds have historically offered safety and diversification. And they spare you the responsibility of picking individual stocks. ↗

— Ron Chernow

#funds #historically #individual #mutual #mutual funds

We may have to force people to get together in terms of picking a particular type of technology and starting to build to that technology, as opposed to everybody exercising their right to buy their own system, you know, at will. ↗

— Michael Chertoff

#buy #everybody #exercising #force #get

We're picking on people we can beat. ↗

— George Clooney

#people #picking

As soon as I got successful, the Scottish press started picking on me. It's something they reserve just for me. ↗

— Billy Connolly

#i #just #me #picking #press

Mutual funds were created to make investing easy, so consumers wouldn't have to be burdened with picking individual stocks. ↗

— Scott Cook

#consumers #created #easy #funds #individual

The only successor to President Putin is President Putin himself and we could of course dream about President Putin stepping down voluntarily and picking out successor which would be probably as bad as him. ↗

— Garry Kasparov

#bad #could #course #down #dream

At the end of my life, is it better to say that I empowered people to make great stuff, or that I died with a net worth of $10 billion? Obviously I'm picking the former, although I would not mind both. ↗

— Guy Kawasaki

#better #billion #both #died #empowered

Maybe I thought too much about picking up the money and not enough about the really good parts. ↗

— Alan Ladd

#enough #good #good parts #i #maybe