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Barry Ritholtz

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It's kind of the good news, bad news thing. The good news is it's very popular. And the bad news is ...
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Your latest news is just news being repeated over and over again. It's old news already.
ANDONI GARCIA
For most folks, no news is good news; for the press, good news is not news.
GLORIA BORGER
Stocks have priced in a lot of good news right now and you're seeing that in effect. Good news is ba...
PETER GREEN
We're here today with both good news and bad news. The good news is we got the funding, but the bad ...
DONNIE DREWER
Our life is a series of moments. Let them all go. Moments. All gathering towards this one.
NOW IS GOOD
Good news and bad news. You are going to live, is the good news. It's going to be a horrible life if...
JUSTIN CARROLL
The good news is people are living longer, and the bad news is people are living longer.
CHARLES HAMOWY
It's almost a good news-bad news situation. The good news is more people are joining the workforce.
ER ANDERSON
Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C.
The truth is, we know so little about life, we don't really know what the good news is and what the ...
KURT VONNEGUT
The good news, of course, is that we are in a break right now. The bad news is that it ends tomorrow...
ELIZABETH MORSE
I think in politics, in Congress, you often do things that are Republican, or you do things because ...
J. C. WATTS
The good news is the rate of increase in health care costs is down, ... The bad news is that's the o...
DREW ALTMAN
No bad news is good news. These are reasonably solid results for a company that's had bad news in th...
CHAD HERSH
The good news is that the bad news can be turned into good news when you change your attitude.
ROBERT H. SCHULLER
This is a good news bad news thing. The bad news is we got in a hitting contest and came in third. T...
DANNY JORDAN
The good news is you can achieve success without hard work.The bad news is you cannot maintain it wi...
LALIT BHOJWANI
The good news is that Jesus is coming back. The bad news is that he's really pissed off.
BOB HOPE
We are in a cyclical bear market and investors' reaction to good news is certainly indicative of tha...
GERALD VINCENT
The good news is more rate cuts are on the way. The bad news is the economy is weaker and that will ...
STEPHEN KING
Well-reported news is a public good; bad news is bad for everyone.
JILL LEPORE
The good news is they've got a strategy. The bad news is that strategy may not prevail.
KURTIS KING
The good news is it's not as bad as we thought. The bad news is that it's hard to take off that weig...
JACK YANOVSKI
The good news is that Jesus is coming back. The bad news is that he's really pissed off.
BOB HOPE
The bad news is that only the bad people reach the news because they are noisier.
JAVIER BARDEM
-What's the good news?
-Pardon?
-You said the bad news is we're going the wrong way.
...
DAVID BENIOFF
The bad news is nothing lasts forever,
The good news is nothing lasts forever.
J. COLE
Winning the election is a good-news, bad-news kind of thing. Okay, now you're the mayor. The bad...
CLINT EASTWOOD
There is good news and bad news. We are trying to dig out a woman. We hope she is still alive.
MARKUS RIEDER
There is the story of a pastor who got up one Sunday and announced to his congregation: "I have good...
UNKNOWN
The bad news is time flies like an arrow and the good news is the bow is in your hands.
VIKRANT PARSAI
In the business world, bad news is usually good news - for somebody else.
JAMES SUROWIECKI
The bad news is that 50 people died in a hotel fire; the good news is that we got exclusive footage.
JESSICA SAVITCH
The good news is it drives the economy. The bad news is it adds to the household debt burden.
SAMUEL GERDANO
We have defeated Saddam Hussein and Iraq. The good news is Iraq is ours, and the bad news is Iraq is...
DAVID LETTERMAN
The good news is that Congress has repealed the death tax, the bad news is the president says he's g...
PHIL GRAMM
The good news about entrepreneurship is that your fate is in your hands. The bad news is that your f...
GUY KAWASAKI
The real news is bad news.
MARSHALL MCLUHAN
The news media are, for the most part, the bringers of bad news... and it's not entirely the media's...
PETER MCWILLIAMS
When a dog bites a man, that is not news, because it happens so often. But if a man bites a dog, tha...
JOHN B. BOGART
The nature of Homeland Security is that no news is good news. And no news sometimes means somebody g...
JEH JOHNSON
Next week we have a raft of earnings in the tech sector, with STM, Philips and Nokia. We have got to...
ROBERT KERR
The bad news is that yesterday sucked. The good news is that yesterday is gone. Today's a new day. O...
STEVE MARABOLI
The bad news is, people are crueler, meaner and more evil than you’ve ever imagined. The good news...
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What if — is more complicated than that? What if maybe opposite is true as well? Because, if bad c...
DONNA TARTT
The good news is that I've already outlived two Brontes, Keats, and Stephen Crane. The bad news ...
PAUL KALANITHI
The conflict between the men who make and the men who report the news is as old as time. News may be...
JAMES RESTON
You always are a little edgy on travel day. It's kind of a no-news-is-good-news situation.
ED GOBLE
Investors have gotten used to Apple being out of stock on some of their hottest products. Now they h...
BILL FEARNLEY
Bad news can be good news for equities if the bad news causes the Fed to cut aggressively.
CHRISTINE CALLIES
The news media are, for the most part, the bringers of bad news... and it's not entirely the med...
PETER MCWILLIAMS
The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do...
TED NELSON
Good News, Bad News,
LEE ANN WOMACK
Their propaganda is often unintentionally hilarious and I couldn't find an existing searchable datab...
GEOFF DAVIS
If the best is possible, than good is never enough and only do the best.
ROBERT SIAHAAN
The good news is that, according to the Obama administration, the rich will pay for everything. The ...
P. J. O'ROURKE
The market is reacting more to good news than to bad news at this point, ... Energy prices are certa...
ARTHUR HOGAN
The market is reacting more to good news than to bad news at this point. Energy prices are certainly...
ARTHUR HOGAN
I've got good news and bad news.
BEN JORDAN
To search the sands of a lost desert for truth and justice in this world today you might as well be ...
GARY F EVANS...
Bad news is that you can control nothing but your thoughts. Good news is that with your thoughts you...
DEBASISH MRIDHA
The good news is that the recovery's in sight. The bad news is that there's a lot of uncertainty abo...
CHUCK HILL
The good news is we got 30 free throws. We hoped to do that by using our height advantage and we did...
FRANK ROSSI
I think we're getting mixed messages. Good news one day, mediocre news the next, and bad news after ...
BILL BURKE
This year's state of heart for women brings good news and bad news: Death rates are down and awaren...
ALICE JACOBS
Clearly, investors were not expecting bad news from IBM.
BEN HOCK
The good news is, as a result of that process, investors should have greater confidence overall in t...
LYNN TURNER
I want full disclosure whether the news is good or bad.
CARL INGRAM
Got good news and bad news for you, Mr. President. The good news is that Chief Justice John Roberts ...
RON FOURNIER
Quite simply we've got an absence of bad news, and investors want to buy technology.
JOHN POWER
The good thing about bad news is that it reaches in the last to the person it is about.
WOHI PURANA
Every day there's sad news and bad news, but each day itself is glad news.
UNKNOWN
The good news is that Microsoft has cracked the nut. The bad news is, the more successful they are w...
JOSHUA GREENBAUM
It's a little early to know how bad it is; I would expect it's bad. There's certainly no good news o...
DAVID HACKETT
That's the bad news. The good news is fairly normal precipitation this spring would get . . . much o...
HARRY HILLAKER
There's good news and bad news. We're definitely nowhere near being out of the woods.
CYNTHIA OGDEN
We encourage investors not to sell the brokers on the news this quarter, as visibility is good leadi...
CHRIS MEYER
There are approximately 2,000 robots in use in Afghanistan and Iraq, and that number is expected to ...
BART EVERETT
Well, the bad news,” Swedish said from the wheel, “is that Chess still thinks he’s funny.” <...
JOEL N. ROSS
We've heard the bad news. Now we have to hear the good news.
IRA ZUCKERMAN
Bad news travels at the speed of light; good news travels like molasses.
TRACY MORGAN
He was one of those who are not born handsome, but develop charming features with age by continuousl...
PAWAN MISHRA
Without the balancing context of everyday life, all you have is the news, and news by its nature is ...
ZADIE SMITH
It is always wise to never work on any advice, suggestion or opinion of a person whose views, more o...
ANUJ SOMANY
I’ve got good news and bad news for you, Ryan. The bad news is that you’re the only one in the w...
DEREK LANDY
The stock market is like human beings,it also hears,it responds to good news by moving up & bad news...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
The good news is that the decision gives us the ability to move forward. The bad news is that it wil...
BARRY D. EDWARDS
[One positive is that] there's very little news that could make psychology much worse, and you'll ju...
ARNIE BERMAN
The good news is there's 17 million people who care about Texas football. The bad news is there's 17...
DARRELL ROYAL
We need to wait and see what happens after Hurricane Ophelia passes. The good news is that it's Sept...
BELA MATYAS
We yearn for opportunities, we pray for opportunities and we seek for opportunities. The good news i...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
Though it be honest, it is never good to bring bad news.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
The reality is that the end markets are not good; it looks like Intel is starting to accept reality,...
BILL FLECKENSTEIN
Today is about the now, the moment you live in, so do now what you want to do
SOTONYE ANGA
We're thinking that no news is good news, that maybe they're trying to figure out what their next mo...
GREG ROLLINS
The love you get, is equal to the love you give.
BEN OAK
No news is good news.
LUDOVIC HALEVY
I've come to recognize what I call my 'inside interests.' Telling stories. And helping p...
JANE PAULEY
The only thing I know about Moses is him coming down from the mountain with the commandments and say...
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Everyone focuses on the earthly state, but how cool might death be? I believe in spiritual rebirth, ...
BARRY ZITO
Some people pray to a totem pole, some people pray to a sun, some people pray to a god. It all works...
BARRY ZITO
I view my pitching on how confident I was out there, period. And if I lose that confidence, I can be...
BARRY ZITO
When someone becomes successful or rich and famous, people perceive that person as being different. ...
BARRY ZITO
I don't totally believe that all of the politicians see a problem with the gap between the score...
BARRY WILLIAMS
Tiger the dog had a showdown with a fast moving flower truck in the middle of the street and lost.
BARRY WILLIAMS
One preacher turned me on, another turned me off.
BARRY WHITE
Most families had four, five brothers. But because it was just me and Darryl, we had to be twice as ...
BARRY WHITE
Elton John's opinion turned the label's opinion around, all in a day.
BARRY WHITE
The whole system of society tells you what to do.
BARRY WHITE
I've always loved War's Low Rider and Sly Stone's Thank You, and I just wanted to put my...
BARRY WHITE
People are always looking for me to be a freak, weird.
BARRY WHITE
I'm very happy with this new record. It's dealing with different aspects of love-it's me...
BARRY WHITE
I don't know if it's my music, my lyrics, my sound, and knowing the music business the way I...
BARRY WHITE
We forget that this music, music made by my brothers and sisters, is still a baby. It's just beg...
BARRY WHITE
The cops picked me up for attempted murder. I can still see the detectives, licking their chops. Tho...
BARRY WHITE
When I commit, I commit with my whole heart, my whole being. I know the Bible like the back of my ha...
BARRY WHITE
I kept my babies fed. I could have dumped them, but I didn't. I decided that whatever trip I was...
BARRY WHITE
As a boy, I believed freedom for America meant freedom for me. There was a time I believed every wor...
BARRY WHITE
I went to jail at 16 for stealing tires off Cadillacs. When I got out I said, Never again.
BARRY WHITE
There's people making babies to my music. That's nice.
BARRY WHITE
I'll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.
BARRY WHITE
I quit high school on my birthday. It was my senior year and I didn't see the point. This was 19...
BARRY WHITE
I try to tell a story musically in a song.
BARRY WHITE
When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy.
BARRY WHITE
Mama tried to save us from the streets, but the streets were too strong.
BARRY WHITE
In most horror films, you don't really get to understand why this character is the way he is.
BARRY WATSON
I want to try and do as much as I can as an actor. So far I think I've done pretty well with bei...
BARRY WATSON
I did. I did see Bigfoot when I was a kid and I still believe it to this day. I saw a big furry man ...
BARRY WATSON
It was tough trying to figure out how to put on all the women's clothes.
BARRY WATSON
Helen Mirren is like the sexiest woman on the planet to me. She is. Just the way she goes about ever...
BARRY WATSON
I grew up in Dallas, with cowboys. I was the only guy in sixth grade with long hair and an earring. ...
BARRY WATSON
I think most people, even if they say they hate horror movies, there's that feeling you get insi...
BARRY WATSON
Of course there are times when I think, 'I'd be better out of this.'
BARRY TOOK
It was a joy to be a part of the team that created Round The Horne. I was involved with the show at ...
BARRY TOOK
There are people worse off than me. I've had a very long run. I'm fine really. I'm just ...
BARRY TOOK
It was like a heart transplant. We tried to implant college in him but his head rejected it.
BARRY SWITZER
I went to Brown University, but my mom said I couldn't be an artist because I would starve.
BARRY STERNLICHT
I see Baccarat in major gateway cities like Paris, Tokyo, Shanghai and Hong Kong and exotic resort l...
BARRY STERNLICHT
There's more single-family homes rented in the United States then there are apartments.
BARRY STERNLICHT