You shoot ducks not when the gun is loaded but when the ducks are flying. --Jack Byrne

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails. --Bertha Calloway

bijeremiad 

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails. --Bertha Calloway

I'm subscribed to this thread and I always am surprised with what you come up with when I check it.

You can learn much more about human nature on Madison Avenue [the market] than you will from experts on human nature, because on Madison Avenue on stands or falls by the sales. Professors [wall street analysts] in their ivory towers can say anything because there's no penalty attached. Go to where there is a penalty attached and there you will find wisdom. --Idries Shah

bijeremiad 

You can learn much more about human nature on Madison Avenue [the market] than you will from experts on human nature, because on Madison Avenue on stands or falls by the sales. Professors [wall street analysts] in their ivory towers can say anything because there's no penalty attached. Go to where there is a penalty attached and there you will find wisdom. --Idries Shah

This is very true and also why I stopped watching finance tv. Now I just check for news to avoid it or make my own assumption from the factual figures.

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence. -Samuel Johnson, lexicographer (1709-1784)

Stocks trade based on three things: sentiment, valuation and trend. --Josh Brown (TheReformedBroker)

If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful after all. -Michelangelo Buonarroti, sculptor, painter, architect, and poet (1475-1564)

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.

-- Voltaire

So, naturalists observe a flea
Hath smaller fleas that on him prey
And these have smaller still to bite 'em;
And so proceed ad infinitum.
—Jonathan Swift