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Quotes About Losses

I have losses to Machida and Lovato, and I'm going to avenge them both.
~ Gegard Mousasi
Losses will come. That's for sure. There's nobody in the league who has gone 82-0.
~ Ricky Rubio
My losses were based on things I did in training, and luck also plays out during the fight.
~ Fabricio Werdum
Helena was very quiet these days. She seemed pleased about the baby, talked from time to time about plans for their lives to come, but her liveliness had gone. Future life and past losses coexisted in her, two halves of a single experience, and she bore her grief and her hope in a subdued manner.
~ Diane Setterfield
Nevertheless, out of the 580-man garrison, 66 percent of the blacks and 35 percent of the whites were killed. Most of these casualties seem to have occurred during the melee immediately after the Confederates entered the walls, but not all. One
~ Unknown
Though the Russians technically won, the world watched as the Red Army suffered losses in the snowy woods at the hands of a few proud Finns on skis, their artillery pulled by reindeer.
~ Unknown
In the first weeks of the Battle of Bataan, the Japanese incurred heavy losses as the Americans and Filipinos fought furiously to protect their last stronghold. The Allies incurred far fewer casualties, but their dead could not be replaced. The Japanese had an endless supply of men and armaments, and as the weeks wore on they bombarded their prey with heavy artillery and relentless air attacks.
~ John Grisham
Juan Diego lived there, in the past—reliving, in his imagination, the losses that had marked him.
~ John Irving
Mexico spent $180 million to fight the disease, but suffered $9 billion in economic losses because of the irrational response from trading partners—not exactly positive reinforcement if the goal is to encourage candor the next time.
~ John M. Barry
The markets are unforgiving, and emotional trading always results in losses.
~ Alexander Elder
By investing at a discount, Benjamin Graham knew that he was unlikely to experience losses.
~ Seth Klarman
If you have made a mistake cut your losses as quickly as possible.
~ Bernard Baruch
In 1995, reporting $916 million in personal losses cleared the way for Trump to write off more than $50 million in
~ Maggie Haberman
Stores offering credit typically charged higher prices to cover the inevitable credit losses, driving cash-paying customers to chain stores that offered no credit but lower prices.7
~ Unknown
There is no such thing as static happiness. Happiness is a mixed thing, a thing compounded of sacrifices, and losses, and betrayals.
~ John Updike
Looking for Silver Linings Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains losses and disappointments.
~ Joseph Addison
1. Anything can happen. 2. You don't need to know what is going to happen next in order to make money. 3. There is a random distribution between wins and losses for any given set of variables that define an edge. 4. An edge is nothing more than an indication of a higher probability of one thing happening over another. 5. Every moment in the market is unique.
~ Unknown
Such is the privilege of survival: to be allowed to fashion the means that fit our ends, to cobble together a narrative that reveals (as by the divine light of illumination) the predestined arc of our days. This is no small gift. With it we can neutralize all but the greatest losses, reduce even the greatest bastards to nothing more than bit actors in the drama of our lives, put on this earth for the sole purpose of forwarding our cause. Blessed are those who can believe their own stories.
~ Mark Slouka
An investment philosophy is a set of beliefs about: the nature of investment reality: how markets work, why prices move; a theory of value, including how value can be identified, and what causes profits and losses; and the nature of a good investment.
~ Unknown
They are achieving nothing, they are suffering from casualties. Those casualties are increasing, not decreasing
~ Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
Micro fortunes were made every day at Port Shannon. And more were lost.
~ Unknown
You appear dangerous to people when you question their values, beliefs, or habits of a lifetime. You place yourself on the line when you tell people what they need to hear rather than what they want to hear. Although you may see with clarity and passion a promising future of progress and gain, people will see with equal passion the losses you are asking them to sustain.
~ Unknown
Outward losses drive good people to their prayers, but bad people to their curses.
~ Matthew Henry
job losses generate should be mostly directed at technological change, not immigration
~ Unknown