The ultimate compound return rate is acutely sensitive to fat tails.
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Part Six, Blowing Up, Survival Motive, p. 297William Poundstone
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The best strategy is one that offers the highest compound return consistent with no risk of going broke.
William Poundstone
Both a priori reasoning and experience teach us that as as these funds grow larger the geometrical rate of growth by compound interest ultimately defeats itself.
Benjamin Graham
The author of human nature impressed it with certain sensitive aptitudes and mental powers, so that apprehension, reflection or understanding could no otherwise be exerted or produced in the compound nature of man, but in the order prescribed by the creator.
Ethan Allen
It's not the machine itself that does the trick. The machine merely acts as an intermediary between the sensitive and the spiritual force. It is an extension of the sensitive. It magnifies the capability of the sensitive and acts as a link of some sort. It enables the sensitive to perform his function.
Clifford D. Simak
I knew I'd never be more than a second-rate business man and a second-rate writer — so I decided to add the two things together and be a first rate advertising man.
Bruce Fairchild Barton
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