[f17]

No one ever says they saw a great opportunity and passed on it

I had the opportunity to buy Bitcoin in 2010 and didn't. I was simultaneously correct (about the moral value and nature of the thing) and utterly, utterly wrong (about what it would do between then and zero, and thus from a personal financial standpoint).

I had too much faith in humanity to invest in Bitcoin. Whoops. Turned out degenerate nihilism was the winning bet.

[wolverine876]

IIRC Churchill said about the US, hoping for entry into WWII: 'They always do the right thing, after exhausting all other possibilities.'

[d0mine]

The famous: "markets can remain irrational a lot longer than you and I can remain solvent."