The talent should speak for itself.
If you have to forecast, forecast often.
Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers - six if one went to Harvard.
When you know absolutely nothing about the topic, make your forecast by asking a carefully selected probability sample of 300 others who don't know the answer either.
Economists state their GNP growth projections to the nearest tenth of a percentage point to prove they have a sense of humor.
The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.
Forecasters tend to learn less and less about more and more, until in the end they know nothing about everything.
I'm not as cool as you think I think I might be, and the most important things in my life are God, love and peace. Everything else is b. s. And art's kind of important, too.
On the one hand, I want to go off and live in the desert with my dog and sculpt things out of adobe.
If England was what England seems, And not the England of our dreams; But only putty, brass, and paint, 'Ow we'd chuck 'er- but she ain't!
[L]iberty cannot be preserved, if the manners of the people are corrupted. . .