A Quote by Francois Guizot

The world belongs to optimists; the pessimists are only spectators.

Francois Guizot

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Francois Guizot
French - Statesman
October 4, 1787 - September 12, 1874

Pessimists are usually right and optimists are usually wrong but all the great changes have been accomplished by optimists.

Thomas Friedman

I don't know if the optimists or the pessimists are right. But, the optimists are going to get something done.

Craig Venter

Pessimists are toxic. I love optimists - and by that, I don't mean people who are unable to see challenges. Optimists are solution-oriented.

Ivanka Trump

The positive outlook that optimists project does not come from ignoring or denying problems. Optimists simply assume that problems are temporary and can be solved, so optimists naturally want more information about problems because then they can get to work and do something. Pessimists are more likely to believe that there is nothing they can do anyway, so what's the point of even thinking about it?

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Only optimists commit suicide, optimists who no longer succeed at being optimists. The others, having no reason to live, why would they have any to die?

Emile M. Cioran

Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you will be.

Harvey Mackay

Pessimists calculate the odds. Optimists believe they can overcome them.

Ted Koppel

The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists.

Benjamin Graham

Optimists think that this is the best of all possible worlds; pessimists fear they are right.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

Pessimists beat their heads against walls, while optimists open doors.

Wes Fesler

Optimists and pessimists die the exact same death, but they live very different lives!

Shimon Peres

I thought all my life that optimists and pessimists pass away the same way, so why be a pessimist?

Shimon Peres

Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.

George Bernard Shaw

As a bull market turns into a bear market, the new pros turn into optimists, hoping and praying the bear market will become a bull and save them. But as the market remains bearish, the optimists become pessimists, quit the profession, and return to their day jobs. This is when the real professional investors re-enter the market.