#speculation

Speculation is an effort, probably unsuccessful, to turn a little money into a lot. Investment is an effort, which should be successful, to prevent a lot of money from becoming a little. ↗

— Fred Schwed Jr.

#investing #investment #speculation #stocks #where-are-the-customer-s-yachts

Speculation, speculation!' she [Caroline Hamelin] mechanically repeated, struggling with her doubts. 'Ah! the idea of it fills my heart with disturbing anguish. ↗

— Émile Zola

#money #speculation #money

In love as as in speculation there is much filth; in love also, people think only of their own gratification; yet without love there would be no life, and the world would come to an end. ↗

— Émile Zola

#money #speculation #love

Celebrity watching and speculation is almost like a sport. ↗

— Marc Anthony

#celebrity #like #speculation #watching

Though my books are written from a historical perspective, I have goon so far back that I am in the realm of prehistorical speculation rather than simple historical fact to weave my stories around. ↗

— Jean M. Auel

#around #back #books #fact #far

The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#becomes #business #capital #deliberately #fortune

Another great evil arising from this desire to be thought rich; or rather, from the desire not to be thought poor, is the destructive thing which has been honored by the name of "speculation"; but which ought to be called Gambling. ↗

— William Cobbett

#arising #been #called #desire #destructive

It is intellectually dishonest to look backwards with all the facts and judge the decisions that were made with almost none of the facts, or the facts that existed hidden in the normal cloud of endless speculation of what might happen. ↗

— Norm Coleman

#backwards #cloud #decisions #dishonest #endless

They have seized upon the government by bribery and corruption. They have made speculation and public robbery a science. They have loaded the nation, the state, the county, and the city with debt. ↗

— Denis Kearney

#city #corruption #county #debt #government

Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and services. ↗

— Henry Ford

#goods #instead #making #manipulation #money