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We pivoted our roster construct from a few superstar players to one which would be a on-the-fly rebuild, we made a decision at the time of those players moving on, rather than take back other WNBA players I knew would be of lesser value to become a speculator to aggregate a number of draft picks. – Skylar Diggins	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
As we approach the close, the speculator community is reluctant to go home with a net long position. – Bob Yawger	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
It is impossible to get the timing of anything exactly right. You have to ask yourself, 'Are you a speculator or an investor?' we are investors and we believe it is a pretty good period to start nibbling on Treasuries. – Scott Minerd	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
It was mainly hedge fund, speculator driven and smacks of price-overshooting. – Anuraag Shah	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Time advances: facts accumulate; doubts arise. Faint glimpses of truth begin to appear, and shine more and more unto the perfect day. The highest intellects, like the tops of mountains, are the first to catch and to reflect the dawn. They are bright, while the level below is still in darkness. But soon the light, which at first illuminated only the loftiest eminences, descends on the plain, and penetrates to the deepest valley. First come hints, then fragments of systems, then defective systems, then complete and harmonious systems. The sound opinion, held for a time by one bold speculator, becomes the opinion of a small minority, of a strong minority, of a majority of mankind. Thus, the great progress goes on. – Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay	added by anonymous 10 years ago
If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen. – Henry David Thoreau	added by anonymous 14 years ago

We pivoted our roster construct from a few superstar players to one which would be a on-the-fly rebuild, we made a decision at the time of those players moving on, rather than take back other WNBA players I knew would be of lesser value to become a speculator to aggregate a number of draft picks.

– Skylar Diggins

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

As we approach the close, the speculator community is reluctant to go home with a net long position.

– Bob Yawger

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

It is impossible to get the timing of anything exactly right. You have to ask yourself, 'Are you a speculator or an investor?' we are investors and we believe it is a pretty good period to start nibbling on Treasuries.

– Scott Minerd

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It was mainly hedge fund, speculator driven and smacks of price-overshooting.

– Anuraag Shah

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Time advances: facts accumulate; doubts arise. Faint glimpses of truth begin to appear, and shine more and more unto the perfect day. The highest intellects, like the tops of mountains, are the first to catch and to reflect the dawn. They are bright, while the level below is still in darkness. But soon the light, which at first illuminated only the loftiest eminences, descends on the plain, and penetrates to the deepest valley. First come hints, then fragments of systems, then defective systems, then complete and harmonious systems. The sound opinion, held for a time by one bold speculator, becomes the opinion of a small minority, of a strong minority, of a majority of mankind. Thus, the great progress goes on.

– Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay

added by anonymous
10 years ago

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

– Henry David Thoreau

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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