Quotes on Poorly

The problem that people don't understand is that active managers, almost by definition, have to be poorly diversified. Otherwise, they're not really active. They have to make bets. What that means is there's a huge dispersion of outcomes that are totally consistent with just chance. There's no skill involved it. It's just good luck or bad luck.

There are people who have tremendously important things to say, but they say it so poorly that nobody would ever want to read it.

Mycologists are few and far between. We are under-funded, poorly represented in the context of other sciences - ironic, as the very foundation of our ecosystems are directly dependent upon fungi, which ultimately create the foundation of soils.

Life is about having a good time, and it was a good time. We did some things well and some things poorly, but that was always the case.

Most people do surprisingly poorly when dealing with a relative who is hurting, depressed, or anxious - we get defensive and try to solve the problem rather than finding the truth in what the person is saying.

My best advice for writers is: Have your adventures, make your mistakes, and choose your friends poorly - all these make for great stories.

Yes, it's absolutely true that anything worth doing is worth doing poorly - until you can learn to do it well.

I did poorly in math for a couple of years in middle school; I was just not interested in thinking about it.

Well-designed subsidies help the poor make the best of whatever opportunities they have; poorly designed ones either do very little or actually make things worse for them.