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Quotes About Losses

It's bad for baseball to have owners who can benefit another business by losing money in baseball.
~ Jerry Reinsdorf
The important thing to recognize is that it takes a team, and the team ought to get credit for the wins and the losses. Successes have many fathers, failures have none.
~ Philip Caldwell
It's amazing, as a player and as a coach, how you always remember the tough losses better than the victories. They're just way more vivid.
~ Ben Howland
Of all the great moments at Butler, I still remember the losses most vividly. I don't know why. I guess that's kind of what drives you.
~ Brad Stevens
When companies fail, shareholders bear the losses. It's just the way our system is supposed to work.
~ Henry Paulson
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 proper figures.
~ Joseph Addison
The horde had the numbers to bring about the war's end, while the defenders only possessed the numbers to delay it – but the losses were going to be grotesque. Ulienne didn't want to die for the Emperor's stubbornness. She wanted to live, to see the Warmaster's ambitions come to fruition. She wanted the Imperium that Horus had promised. An empire for eternity. A kingdom of humanity that would never fall.
~ Aaron Dembski-Bowden
Retail investors who have buying shares in last 10 months from the recommendation tips of news channels, brokers and fintech youtubers are all being fooled as these small investors are in big losses to the tune of 80-150% while those channels have got lakhs of rupees in commissions
~ Abhute Bahety
You will be in the greatest losses when the great truth passes before you and you deny it.
~ Prof.Salam Al Shereida
Come and rejoice, for April is awake. Fling yourselves into the flood of being, bursting the bondage of the past. April is awake. Life's shoreless sea is heaving in the sun before you. All the losses are lost, and death is drowned in its waves. Plunge into the deep without fear, with the gladness of April in your heart.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
The successful entrepreneurs on the free market will be the ones most adept at anticipating future business conditions. Yet, the forecasting can never be perfect, and entrepreneurs will continue to differ in the success of their judgments. If this were not so, no profits or losses would ever be made in business.
~ Murray Rothbard
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
The Federal Reserve has never suffered any losses in the course of its normal lending to banks and, now, to primary dealers.
~ Ben Bernanke
We were facing a financial crunch in the early 1970s because Mera Naam Joker' didn't work and we suffered huge losses due to that. My father was very fond of Mera Naam Joker' and made it with a lot of passion, love and money according to those days. But it flopped.
~ Randhir Kapoor
The Germans had more men killed and wounded at Verdun, 325,000, than all the 230,000 men deployed in the field at Stalingrad twenty-six years later.
~ Joseph E. Persico
we have a system that has been working overtime to move money from the bottom and middle to the top, but the system is so inefficient that the gains to the top are far less than the losses to the middle and bottom.
~ Joseph E. Stiglitz
Colonel Cargill was so awful a marketing executive that his services were much sought after by firms eager to establish losses for tax purposes. Throughout the civilized world, from Battery Park to Fulton Street, he was known as a dependable man for a fast tax write-off. His prices were high, for failure often did not come easily.
~ Joseph Heller
Colonel Cargill was so awful a marketing executive that his services were much sought after by firms eager to establish losses for tax purposes.
~ Joseph Heller
Poetry keeps the door open to awe and ensures that we will find our way through the broken heart field of wars, losses and betrayals to understanding, compassion and gathering together.
~ Joy Harjo
The example also shows that it is costly to be risk averse for gains and risk seeking for losses. These attitudes make you willing to pay a premium to obtain a sure gain rather than face a gamble, and also willing to pay a premium (in expected value) to avoid a sure loss.
~ Daniel Kahneman
people tend to be risk averse in the domain of gains and risk seeking in the domain of losses.
~ Daniel Kahneman
asymmetric intensity of the motives to avoid losses and to achieve gains shows up almost everywhere.
~ Daniel Kahneman
He weighs losses about twice as much as gains, which is normal.
~ Daniel Kahneman
You know you have made a theoretical advance when you can no longer reconstruct why you failed for so long to see the obvious. Still, it took us years to explore the implications of thinking about outcomes as gains and losses.
~ Daniel Kahneman