SPECULATION

Related Subjects: Gambling, Idea, Risk, Theories, Thought

1. A wise man was he who counselled that speculation should have free course, and look fearlessly toward all the thirty-two points of the compass, whithersoever and howsoever it listed.—CARLYLE
   

2. There is scarcely an instance of a man who has made a fortune by speculation and kept it.—ANDREW CARNEGIE, Empire of Business
   

3. The besetting evil of our age is the temptation to squander and dilute thought on a thousand different lines of inquiry.—SIR JOHN HERSCHEL
   

4. Thou hast no speculation in those eyes
   Which thou dost glare with!—SHAKESPEARE, Macbeth
   

5. More zeal and energy, more fanatical hope and more intense anguish have been expended over the past century in efforts to "forecast" the stock market than in almost any other single line of human action.—R. D. SKINNER, Seven Kinds of Inflation
   

6. What looks like swindling with a petty sum,
   Is on a grand and speculative scale
   Honest enough, so it be large enough.—WILLIAM W. STORY, Baron Fisco at Home
   

7. There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when he can't afford it and when he can.—MARK TWAIN