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Anaïs Nin — Seduction of the Minotaur
As journalists, it can feel like the incentives of our tribe are almost always to ask: what's bad about this? But it is a particularly hollow and timid kind of journalism that finds itself unable to also ask: what could go right?
Casey Newton
The dumbest reason in the world to buy a stock is because it's going up. The second dumbest is to sell it because it's going down. The price tells you nothing about the value, and the crowd's opinion of price tells you even less.
Peter Lynch — One Up on Wall Street