Wall Street recognizes the value generated by successful debt purchasing companies, but it is quick to react negatively to escalating portfolio prices, executive and employee turnover, and revenue recognition issues.


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BERTRAND RUSSELL
All movements go too far, and this is certainly true of the movement toward subjectivity, whi...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will sea...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.
BERTRAND RUSSELL
What makes a belief true or false I call a fact. The particular fact that makes a given belief true ...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best inc...
RUSSELL BAKER
A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously tran...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the i...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
BERTRAND RUSSELL
Love is wise; hatred is foolish. In this world, which is getting more and more closely interconnecte...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
My desire and wish is that the things I start with should be so obvious that you wonder why I spend ...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
Even when the experts all agree, they may well be mistaken.
BERTRAND RUSSELL
Even as a junkie I stayed true [to vegetarianism] - 'I shall have heroin, but I shan't have a hambur...
RUSSELL BRAND
Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a cleve...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
BERTRAND RUSSELL
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly ...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
Sometimes I think that the biggest difference between men and women is that more men need to seek ou...
RUSSELL HOBAN
Paradoxically one of the greatest advantages of mind maps is that they are seldom needed again. The ...
PETER RUSSELL
Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty a beauty cold and austere, li...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whet...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchston...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but e...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
We have in fact, two kinds of morality, side by side: one that we preach, but do not practice, and a...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
It is always well to accept your own shortcomings with candor but to regard those of your friends wi...
RUSSELL LYNES
Three passions simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life; the longing for love, the se...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to ea...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
Do not fear to be excentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
BERTRAND RUSSELL
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd;...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
Real life is, to most men, a long second-best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the poss...
BERTRAND RUSSELL