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People don't like to follow pessimists.
Pessimists are born, true, but they also can be made.
Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous.
Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.
My pessimism goes to the point of suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
History has suggested that the pessimists have been wrong time and time again.
I'm one of life's pessimists. I'm ready for everything to go wrong at any moment.
Pessimists are usually kind. The gay, bubbling over, have to time for the pitiful.
My first task is to show how great we are as a nation - let's banish the pessimists.
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists.
I thought all my life that optimists and pessimists pass away the same way, so why be a pessimist?
I've never been an optimist, but that's fine because pessimists have the possibility of being agreeably surprised.
Pessimists are toxic. I love optimists - and by that, I don't mean people who are unable to see challenges. Optimists are solution-oriented.
And our pessimists think this has taken too long. Our pessimists believe that too many Americans have died. Our pessimists believe that we have lost the war.
I'm not particularly fond of Shoah jokes, yet there is one I cannot forget: Why was Auschwitz an optimistic place? Because all the pessimists were already in New York by then.
Pessimism doesn't grow your business or even maintain the status quo. The pessimists on your staff make the job harder for everyone around them. They make difficulties out of opportunities.
Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they're better than other human beings.
If the tenth of the population that is gay became visible tomorrow, the panic of the majority of people would inspire repressive legislation of a sort that would shock even the pessimists among us.
I have lived long enough to witness the vanishing of wild mammals, butterflies, mayflies, songbirds and fish that I once feared my grandchildren would not experience: it has all happened faster than even the pessimists predicted.
History never repeats, but there are the obvious precedents that pessimists can reach for: Sarajevo, 1914; the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia, 1938. But equally relevant might be the tragically meaningless guarantees Britain extended to Poland in 1939.
Whereas in the past optimism had been regarded as rather shallow - because 'oh well, it's just your temperament, you happen to be just a cheerful sort of person' - what I wanted to do was to establish that in fact it is the pessimists who are allowing all kinds of errors to creep into their work.
As a bull market turns into a bear market, the new pros turn into optimists, hoping and praying the bear market will become a bull and save them. But as the market remains bearish, the optimists become pessimists, quit the profession, and return to their day jobs. This is when the real professional investors re-enter the market.