Quotes with losses

  • You get too old to lose. When you were a young guy, you bounced back from losses.
  • Observation over many years has taught us that the chief losses to investors come from the purchase of low-quality securities at times of favorable business conditions.
  • FEMA says that it does not factor in previous losses into its decisions on applications to redraw the flood zones.

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  • Alfred P. Sloan Competition is the final price determinant and competitive prices may result in profits which force you to accept a rate of return less than you hoped for, or for that matter to accept temporary losses.
    Alfred P. Sloan
    American businessman (1875 - 1966)
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  • Joseph Addison Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Brad Gilbert Because you can't change results - I would change my losses, and I would definitely like to see on-court coaching.
    Brad Gilbert
    American tennis player (1961 - )
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  • Bill Dedman FEMA says that it does not factor in previous losses into its decisions on applications to redraw the flood zones.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Augusto Pinochet I regret and suffer those losses, but it's God's will. He will pardon me if I committed excesses, but I don't think I did.
    Augusto Pinochet
    Chilean general, politician and dictator (1915 - 2006)
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  • Bernard M. Baruch If a speculator is correct half of the time, he is hitting a good average. Even being right 3 or 4 times out of 10 should yield a person a fortune if he has the sense to cut his losses quickly on the ventures where he is wrong.
    Bernard M. Baruch
    American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965)
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  • Ben Bernanke In September 2008, the two largest housing mortgage companies called Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which were government-sponsored enterprises, which hold hundreds of billions of dollars of mortgages, because of the losses they took on the mortgages, they essentially became insolvent, and the government had to take them over.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Bill Vaughan In the game of life, it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.
    Bill Vaughan
    American columnist and author (1915 - 1977)
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  • Winston Churchill It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice; I consider the real vice is making losses.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • John Maynard Keynes It is the duty of the long-term investor to endure great losses with equanimity.
    John Maynard Keynes
    British economist (1883 - 1946)
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  • Bill Dedman NBC News found that FEMA has redrawn maps even for properties that have repeatedly filed claims for flood losses from previous storms. At least some of the properties are on the secret 'repetitive loss list' that FEMA sends to communities to alert them to problem properties.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Benjamin Graham Observation over many years has taught us that the chief losses to investors come from the purchase of low-quality securities at times of favorable business conditions.
    The Intelligent Investor Ch. 20, Margin of Safety: The Central Concept, p.
    Benjamin Graham
    British-born American economist, professor and investor (1894 - 1976)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Out of love and hatred, out of earnings and borrowings and leadings and losses; out of sickness and pain; out of wooing and worshipping; out of traveling and voting and watching and caring; out of disgrace and contempt, comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Winston Churchill Socialists think profits are a vice; I consider losses the real vice.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Robert Frost Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Thomas Jefferson The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Arthur Christopher Benson The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortune, but its fears.
    Arthur Christopher Benson
    English essayist, poet, author and academic (1862 - 1925)
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman To admit error and cut losses is rare among individuals, unknown among states.
    A Distant Mirror
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Charles J. Givens Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.
    Charles J. Givens
    American businessman, writer, teacher
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  • John Berger When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss. It was more than that. It was the period in which we suffered more total losses than in all the rest of our life put together.
    John Berger
    English art critic, novelist, painter and poet (1926 - 2017)
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