Statistics: the Kind You Make Up

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Investors want to believe. Always looking for a better way, a chance to gain an advantage in the market, they are particularly susceptible to arguments that use statistics. – Mark A. Johnson

There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up. – Rex Stout

Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem. – Henry A. Kissinger

Even when people are more successful than they had imagined nothing is ever achieve without giving something up. – Judith M. Bardwick

Success doesn’t mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives. It means winning the war, not every battle. – Edwin C. Bliss

Success is much more difficult to deal with than failure, because only you will know how you are handling it. – Harold Geneen

You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity. – O.A. Battista