Quotes of the Day

Sophisticated investors avoid placing specific dates on their contract conditions, Instead, they use a specific number of days after acceptance. For example, rather than "Subject to buyer's lawyer's approval by May 11, 2010", the statement should read, "Subject to buyer's lawyer's approval within 14 days of acceptance." That way, if the negotiations go back and forth for a while and the vendor finally agrees, to the contract two weeks after you started the process, you are not under any additional time constraints. [2009] - Don R. Campbell

In a position trade--or any trade--you should be risking only a small percentage of your overall risk capital. For professionals this may be as little as 0.5 to 1 percent. For beginners, who are often undercapitalized by definition, it should never be over 5 percent and preferably should be closer to 2 percent. [2010] - Jay Norris

When cancers progress in an orderly manner from precancerous stage to small tumor to large tumor to metastasis, screening succeeds. Screening to remove early cancers prevents the development of late cancers, and this saves lives. But if removal of early-stage cancer does not reduce late-stage cancer, screening is unsuccessful, and overdiagnosis becomes a problem. Not every early-stage cancer needs to be destroyed, as many small cancers are contained by the immune system and will never pose a serious health threat. With toxic treatments such as surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy, the treatment may be worse than the disease. [2020] - Jason Fung

An impression simply means that the Web page containing the advertisement was loaded and potentially viewed by someone who is browsing that Web site. The process of a site visitor clicking on a banner ad with his or her mouse is called a click through. Banner advertising is typically a very low cost investment (usually under .10 cents per click). [2007] - Bruce C. Brown

Renting seems to be more advantageous for people who do not plan to stay in the same premises for more than four to five years, and buying is more advantageous for those who decide to stay for a longer period. [2013] - Dan S. Barnabic