All credit to www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/05/11/090511fa_fact_gladwell?currentPage=all

…David’s victory over Goliath, in the Biblical account, is held to be an anomaly. It was not. Davids win all the time.

…When underdogs choose not to play by Goliath’s rules, they win, Arreguín-Toft concluded, “even when everything we think we know about power says they shouldn’t.”

All credit to www.michaelcovel.com/2012/01/07/the-goal-is-not-how-to-get-an-a-in-how-to-read-a-balance-sheet/

It does not matter if you’re trading stocks or soybeans. Trading is trading, and the name of the game is to make money, not get an A in “How to Read a Balance Sheet.”

All credit to http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2012/03/18/a-fun-diy-science-goodie-proof-yourself-against-sensationalized-stats/

Aaron Levenstein said that statistics are like bikinis – what they reveal is suggestive but what they conceal is vital.

All credit to http://www.inspirationandchai.com/Regrets-of-the-Dying.html

This has been around a few times in different forms. It is a little bit hippy, but worth a reminder every now and then. Things that people have said on their death bed: (more…)