Analysis Quotes

“The old wars were decided by their episodes rather than by their tendencies. In this war, the tendencies are far more important than the episodes.”

“Love is created and preserved by intellectual analysis, for we love only that which is unique, and it belongs to contemplation, not to action, for we would not change that which we love.”

“In analysing history do not be too profound, for often the causes are quite superficial.”

“We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.”

“Read Ben Graham and Phil Fisher read annual reports, but don't do equations with Greek letters in them.”

“Have you any notion how many books are written about women in the course of one year? Have you any notion how many are written by men? Are you aware that you are, perhaps, the most discussed animal in the universe?”

“We scarcely wish to analyse what we feel to be so large and deeply human.”

“Investors should remember that their scorecard is not computed using Olympic-diving methods: Degree-of-difficulty doesn't count. If you are right about a business whose value is largely dependent on a single key factor that is both easy to understand and enduring, the payoff is the same as if you had correctly analyzed an investment alternative characterized by many constantly shifting and complex variables.”

“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.”

“My job is essentially just corralling more and more and more facts and information, and occasionally seeing whether that leads to some action.”

“Philosophy is the microscope of thought.”

“Economic policies need to be analyzed in terms of the incentives they create, rather than the hopes that inspired them.”

“The more one analyses people, the more all reasons for analysis disappear. Sooner or later one comes to that dreadful universal thing called human nature.”

“As with every phenomenon of the objective universe, the first step toward understanding work is to analyze it.”

“Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog:Nobody really enjoys it, and the frog generally dies as a result.”

“Humor is like a frog; if you dissect it, it dies.”

“To arrive at the definition of the problem he must begin by finding the 'critical factor'. This is the element (or elements) in the situation that has to be changed before anything else can be changed, moved, acted upon.”

“I analyzed you, though you did not adore me.”

“The 1st question the effective decision-maker asks is: 'Is this a generic situation or an exception?'”

“Explaining humor is a lot like dissecting a frog, you learn a lot in the process, but in the end you kill it.”

“The person of analytic or critical intellect finds something ridiculous in everything. The person of synthetic or constructive intellect, in almost nothing.”

“Analysis and synthesis are both as necessary to the thinking spirit as inspiration and expiration to the organism.”

“When I work a game as an analyst, all I do is look at the game like a coach.”

“When I work a game as an analyst, all I do is look at the game like a coach. Why was something successful? What makes it work? I just try to use my expertise and whatever insight I have to the game.”

“I can analyze people's intentions. Immediately. That's just a warning. To everyone.”