Fluctuations Quotes

Although we deal with probabilities and expectations, the actual results can deviate substantially from such expectations, particularly on a short-term basis.

People do, as long as you have markets, you'll have excesses.

We all know that players will hit a few more home runs than usual in some years and a few less in others. But the mathematics of chance also predicts that some years they'll hit a lot more, and some years a lot less.

What is down will go up. At the same time, you have to be prepared for what is up to go down.

Life is fits and starts, mostly fits.

I've noticed, in the ebbs and flows of success and popularity, so much of it is fraudulent and to be distrusted.

You know you are going to go through your ups and downs in this game.

This plan is subject to change without notice as all plans are.

How fragile and unpredictable the course of history is.

Just understand that there's going to be some ups, there's going to be some downs.

Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes you get rained out.

I've seen how this thing goes, the waves, the ins and outs of the season.

If you were to plot my success or failure, it goes, it very seldom stays on a high plateau.

History has spurts and then is steady, and then maybe even backing up a step, and then forward again.

Booms are great while they last but they don’t last forever.

You can be on top of everything, and the next minute, you're going to be on the bottom.

Nothing can stay great forever, and nothing can stay horrible forever.

The term 'business cycle' is imprecise. Economic fluctuations affect everyone, not just businesses, and they are, unlike astral cycles, anything but regular.

Ultimately, in the long run we need to immunise our system from being overly responsive to fluctuations in the exchange rate; that is, people should, by and large, be reasonably hedged, or they should borrow more in domestic currency rather than foreign currency.

Maximum of an average is necessarily less volatile than the average maximum.

Obviously, you're going to have your ups and your downs, but the more ups I can have and the quicker the downs are, the better I'll be.

I can't narrow either one down to just one thing. I've rolled the dice and had both success and failure. I can tell you that right now we're on a roll with the talk show. Everything is good with the TV show.

They say for every high high there must be a low low low low low

But peace, too, is a living thing and like all life it must wax and wane, accommodate, withstand trials, and undergo changes.

Life is full of chances and changes, and the most prosperous of men may in the evening of his days meet with great misfortunes.