287 Quotes About Assumption

I had lots of trouble in school as a child, and I lost confidence. Teachers thought I was stupid. I learned to read very late, when I was 11. Dyslexia wasn't recognized then, and the assumption was you were incapable of thinking.

You can't make that assumption about 'we' being the losers.

If we hadn't had a recession a year ago, and we were watching the fall in employment, a stalling manufacturing sector, falling bond yields and falling stock prices, many people would think we were entering a recession. There's an assumption that the recovery will continue and get stronger next year, when in fact it's possible the economy's tipping over again.

There's a perception that the economy is actually doing quite well, in particular the labor market. It's a fairly straightforward assumption the Fed would want to hike rates in March and perhaps in May. You might see bond yields go higher.

I'm challenging the assumption that you need to be a dog-eat-dog person to survive in a corporate environment.

Of course, the assumption that Pakistan is in a position to exercise complete influence is flawed.

I would think the normal assumption is if one person wants that search excluded, that search is excluded.

There was a general assumption - that is proving somewhat erroneous - that the baby boomers would continue with the consumption patterns that they established in their youth. Instead, they're doing more like what prior generations did as they got older, and switching their drinking habits to wine and spirits.

It's possible that we could work something out regarding 2007. But our assumption was that she would sell the conference and it would move.