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Sometimes common sense tells us what statistics cannot.
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John Bogle
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Risk is about how we make decisions, and only incidentally about the math that we employ to reach those decisions.
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Peter Bernstein
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If the discernment of value could be reduced to an algorithm and taught, then everybody would be Warren Buffett.
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Howard Marks
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In 44 years of Wall Street experience and study, I have never seen dependable calculations made about common stock values, or related investment policies, that went beyond simple arithmetic or the most elementary algebra.
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Benjamin Graham
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Mathematics is ordinarily considered as producing precise and dependable results; but in the stock market the more elaborate and abstruse the mathematics the more uncertain and speculative are the conclusions we draw therefrom.
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Benjamin Graham
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