A Quote by Carl Icahn

When most investors, including the pros, all agree on something, they're usually wrong.

Carl Icahn

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Agree Including Investors Most Pros Something Wrong

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Carl Icahn
American - Businessman
Born: February 16, 1936

What all agree upon is probably right; what no two agree in most probably is wrong.

Thomas Jefferson

Don't be afraid to challenge the pros, even in their own backyard. Learn from the pros, observe them, seek them out as mentors and partners. But remember that even the pros may have leveled out in terms of their learning and skills. Sometimes even the pros can become complacent and lazy.

Colin Powell

Most economists, including me, agree that longevity insurance would make sense for a lot of people.

Richard Thaler

What comedy does, for the most part, is it voices something so simplistically that people will agree with us, and then once you agree with something, you go, 'That's what I think.' So what you're trying to do is try to voice arguments that people get on a side with. So they can use that, maybe at a dinner party, themselves.

Jim Jefferies

Investor confidence in Adani is fairly high, and most of our investors are long-term investors.

Gautam Adani

It's not something to complain about, but just the major difference between college and the pros is that in college you're guaranteed four to five years so long as you don't do anything criminally and in the pros you're guaranteed one day because you can be cut the next.

Robert Griffin III

Most fisherman, including this one, cling to their pet stupidities as they would to a battered briar or an old jacket; and their dogged persistence in wrong methods and general wrong-headedness finally wins the a sort of grudging admiration, if not many fish.

John D. Voelker

Billionaire investors know they're going to be wrong, so they have a plan to protect against wrong.

Tony Robbins

I might be botching this quote but I agree with the idea that a measure of society is not how it treats its most powerful but how it treats its most vulnerable, including the poor and incarcerated and - I would add to that - the people whose ideas are not currently in favor.

Shepard Fairey

Unless an investor has access to “incredibly high-qualified professionals,” they “should be 100 percent passive - that includes almost all individual investors and most institutional investors.

David F. Swensen

Most college athletes are obsessed with getting to the pros, and many of them have proved they will do anything to get there, even if it's something unethical.

Jemele Hill

Some investors may grumble about entrepreneurs wanting 'unicorn valuations.' But let's be honest: most investors want them, too, and are supporting the massive capitalization of these companies.

Aileen Lee

Most people don't realize that they feel something is wrong before they think something is wrong.

Jacqueline Winspear

Most investors are pretty smart. Yet most investors also remain heavily invested in actively managed stock funds. This is puzzling. The temptation, of course, is to dismiss these folks as ignorant fools. But I suspect these folks know the odds are stacked against them, and yet they are more than happy to take their chances.