Noreena Hertz Quotes

Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.

I've been around a while. I kinda know these things.

Some people have nothing but experience.

In business, experience is the big teacher.

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.

Well, I just can't play the game anymore. I'm 63 years old, and I've been in the business for 40 years now. I take good advice and direction really well, but I don't need somebody that finished college two years ago to come in and tell me what I should be recording.

There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.

One thing I really hate is experience. Experience for me doesn't work. Everybody's talking about experience this, experience that.

Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.

As between mileage and experience choose experience.

Knowledge is that which benefits, not that which is memorized

I don't think there's any substitute for experience.

In my viewpoint, experience is grossly overrated.

It's a big jump from smart to motherwit.

Words without experience are meaningless.

Brains are no substitute for judgement.

Experience is the highest authority.

The gut-feel of the 55-year old trader is more important than the mathematical elegance of the 25-year old genius.

Instinct is the gift of experience. The first question you have to ask yourself is, 'On what basis am I making a judgment?' ... If you have no experience, then your instincts aren't any good.

Experience by itself teaches nothing.

Experience is always a trustworthy guide; it may not tell you everything, but it never lies.

The man of action is not the headstrong fool who rushes into danger with no thought for himself, but the man who puts into practice the things he knows.

But everyone's an expert with the virtue of hindsight . . . .

There is no substitute for knowledge.

Experience trumps brilliance.