A Quote by Ted Koppel

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

Ted Koppel

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Believe Calculate Odds Overcome Them

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Ted Koppel
American - Journalist
Born: February 8, 1940

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

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

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.

Robert Kiyosaki

Men are always optimists when they look inwards, and pessimists when they look round them.

Ouida

And our pessimists think this has taken too long. Our pessimists believe that too many Americans have died. Our pessimists believe that we have lost the war.

John Linder

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

Francois Guizot

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

Benjamin Graham

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

Harvey Mackay

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

J. Robert Oppenheimer

You can't just count on becoming a syndicated cartoonist. I actually tried to calculate the odds once, and the best I could come up with is a 1-in-36,000 chance. And the odds of getting hit by lightning are 1 in 7,900 - which kind of shows how long those odds are.