“All you need is a hell of an aperceptive mass, an IQ of 150, and a dollop of ESP, and you can ignore the headlines, because you anticipated them months ago.”

—  George Goodman

Source: The Money Game (1968), Chapter 3, Can Ink Blots Tell You..., p. 40

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