Outguess

The flaw in public policy is that planners and engineers think they can outguess the market. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Government should not attempt to outguess the market and pick winners and losers. ❋ Joseph J. Thorndike (2011)

Obama thinks many steps ahead … and those who try to try to outguess him have often been proven outmatched. ❋ Unknown (2010)

But if Alan Greenspan does not understand why long rates are staying low despite the Feds efforts to push up short rates, who am I outguess the market. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The danger of this, of course, is if we become invested in a character and they outguess themselves by going to the “nothing is how you think” well too often. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The rest of the day was spent trying to outguess any other potential attacks, with Air Force One flying around US air space until someone could think of what to do. ❋ Unknown (2011)

A two-day cat-and-mouse chase through the streets of uptown Manhattan as quadriplegic detective Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs try to outguess Thompson Boyd -- by all appearances a nondescript, innocuous man, but one whose past has turned him into a killing machine as unfeeling and cunning as a wolf. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Still Standing, based on the hit Israeli series of the same title, challenges contestants to try to outguess other opponents in a fast-paced trivia game. ❋ Unknown (2011)

"If there is a market with many traders, you shouldn't try to outguess the market," says J. ❋ Jason Zweig (2011)

We had to outguess the future; one way of doing that was to be so far ahead of the present that there was no danger of facts overtaking us. ❋ Unknown (2010)

What I had done was recognize that I was trying to outguess the future, and therefore, not present. ❋ Unknown (2010)

You think about all the things that can go wrong, and try to outguess the mistakes that are going to be made. . . ❋ Scott Eyman (2010)

He describes the difficulty of determining the right keywords to find information on changes in California's spending on its schools - and of "trying to outguess the engines". ❋ Unknown (2009)

I think that fiscal policy is likely to be ineffective, unless policymakers can outguess the market about the sorts of jobs that need to be created in the long term. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"When we do a good job of assimilating all those seemingly unrelated facts," says Greg Page, Cargill's chief executive, in a rare interview, "it provides us an opportunity to make money ... without necessarily having to make directional trades, i.e., outguess the weather, outguess individual governments." ❋ Unknown (2009)

What I do know is that the way for the average person to make money in stocks is what it has always been: invest for the long term, don't try, to outguess the market, don't pour in every spare penny when prices rise or sell in despair when prices fall. ❋ Unknown (2008)