David Einhorn Quotes

More often than not bad luck meant bad plans.

At gambling, the deadly sin is to mistake bad play for bad luck.

Making pictures, for an actress, is like betting, for a gambler. Each time you make a picture you try to analyze why you won or lost.

I'm not being really intelligent in my film choices; I'm just landing the opportunity when it comes.

I'm always surprised when the corporate world does stupid things, because they're often not very stupid in hindsight.

But I don't think I have any particular talent for prediction, because when you have three or four elements in hand, you don't have to be a genius to reach certain conclusions.

I didn't hang any pictures in my office for a year because I thought that I would be jinxing myself and have to take them down the next day.

The writers want to know were you made your mistake, no how well your curve is breaking.

There's too little sense in the State Department of why things happened.

Failures have been errors of judgment, not of intent

There's no specific reason for it, sometimes results just go against you and your opponents play too well.

Bad things can happen even to the best players.

Sometimes you have to take a draw.

Success is a matter of luck. If you want proof, ask any failure.

It's got to be the best intellectual exercise out there. You're seeing through new situations every ten minutes. In the stock market you don't base your decisions on what the market is doing, but on what you think is rational. Bridge is about weighing gain/loss ratios. You're doing calculations all the time.

Victory is for them, not for us. We have not made profit out of our country's misfortune. Victory does not bring us luck.

Luck is luck ... What we do with it determines whether it's good or bad.

Take the probability of loss times the amount of possible loss from the probability of gain times the amount of possible gain. That is what we're trying to do. It's imperfect, but that's what it's all about.

There was no such thing as luck. Luck was a word idiots used to explain the consequences of their own rashness, and selfishness, and stupidity. More often than not bad luck meant bad plans.

Knowing when to take your losses is an essential part of eventual success.

All the politics in the world are nothing else but a kind of analysis of the quantity of probability in casual events, and a good politician signifies no more but one who is dexterous at such calculations.

It's hard to tell our bad luck from our good luck sometimes. And most of us have wept copious tears over someone or something when if we'd understood the situation better we might have celebrated our good fortune instead.

The trouble is people leave too much to luck. They get married and then trust to luck. They should be sure in the first place.

There is always hazard in military activity, but we must decide between the positive loss of inactivity and the risk of action.

Just my luck, on top of everything else I had to take baboon medicine.