Wrong Conclusions Quotes

Inaccurate analysis produces faulty insights and bad decisions - which lead to losing a tremendous amount of money.

Sometimes I get the story wrong, or it's the wrong story, and then things don't work.

Sometimes you can see things happen right in front of your eyes and still jump to the wrong conclusions.

When companies are successful or not successful, they almost immediately jump to the wrong conclusions about how they got there or why they got there.

He that thinks amiss, concludes worse.

Half the wrong conclusions at which mankind arrive are reached by the abuse of metaphors, and by mistaking general resemblance or imaginary similarity for real identity.

The Universe repeats itself, with the possible exception of history. Of all earthly studies history is the only one that does not repeat itself. ... Astronomy repeats itself; botany repeats itself; trigonometry repeats itself; mechanics repeats itself; compound long division repeats itself. Every sum if worked out in the same way at any time will bring out the same answer. ... A great many moderns say that history is a science; if so it occupies a solitary and splendid elevation among the sciences; it is the only science the conclusions of which are always wrong.