"He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass." ― Edgar R. Fiedler Topic(s): Wisdom More From Edgar R. Fiedler "The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers." "If you have to forecast, forecast often." "Ask five economists and you’ll get five different answers – six if one went to Harvard." More In Wisdom "The energy of the crowd is insane. Twenty thousand people. It’s the biggest jolt of adrenaline. It’s very hard to explain. You know the old story about the woman lifting the car off her kid? It’s in that realm. You can actually hurt yourself and not know it."― Tom Petty "As a parent and a citizen, I’ll take a Bill Gates (or Warren Buffett) over Steve Jobs every time. If we must have billionaires, better they should ignore Jobs’s example and instead embrace the morality and wisdom of the great industrialist-philanthropist Andrew Carnegie."― Eric Alterman "The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance."― Benjamin Franklin