Quotes About Losses

By the turn of the century, all-out attacks by hosts of valiant French infantry, rather on the style employed by the Imperial Guard at Waterloo, were the received wisdom in French military circles, and would remain so until the losses of the Great War killed off its adherents and a million or so brave young men.

The 72nd Division, which had opened the battle with 12,000 men, had lost nearly 10,000 men in three days; this is as many as all the Allied armies, navies and air forces lost on D-Day 1944 - and the French losses came from a single division.

Yes, we inevitably turn to God; for this religious sentiment is of its nature so pure, so delightful to the soul that experiences it, that it makes up to us for all our other losses.

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Do it. Go there. Take it away, permanently. Deliver the fear. Force the task. Remove all hope. Demand the sacrifice. Enact defeat. Wreck everything. Great endings are built of great climaxes: enormous feats, worst fears, tremendous losses, harrowing sacrifices, utter destruction.

A life with difficult relationships, filled with obstacles and losses, presents the most opportunity for the soul's growth.

My life is about ups and downs, great joys and great losses.

However, in the markets losses should be viewed like the light bulbs or rotten fruit mentioned earlier: part of the business and taken with equanimity. Loss is not the same as wrong, and loss is not necessarily bad.

The majority of unskilled investors stubbornly hold onto their losses when the losses are small and reasonable. They could get out cheaply, but being emotionally involved and human, they keep waiting and hoping until their loss gets much bigger and costs them dearly.20 (William O'Neil)

So when an individual adheres to a market position despite the mounting losses, he is a crowd.

One of the most incomprehensible features of a crowd is the tenacity with which the members adhere to erroneous assumptions despite mounting evidence to challenge them.6 So when an individual adheres to a market position despite the mounting losses, he is a crowd.

It finally occurred to me that maybe studying losses was more important than searching for some Holy Grail to making money.

In betting and gambling games if you stop acting and do nothing, the losses will stop. But when investing, trading, or speculating, if you're losing and stop acting, the losses don't stop; they can continue to grow almost indefinitely.

But when investing, trading, or speculating, if you're losing and stop acting, the losses don't stop; they can continue to grow almost indefinitely.

Acknowledging that losses are part of business is one thing; taking and accepting those losses in the markets is something else entirely.

Another reason controls should precede strategy is that, as we learned in chapter 7, you can't calculate the probability of a trade's being profitable; you can only calculate your exposure. So all you can do is manage your losses, not predict profits.

I thought of how she'd been at three, at six, at nine. No one warns you about the losses. No one tells you you'll miss them, those earlier children. They disappear, but are they still there, sealed one inside the next like those little wooden Russian dolls?

When it comes to our aversion to closing accounts in the losses, the pass-fail nature of goals makes this problem worse. As soon as you set a goal or a target, you put yourself immediately in the losses, at least in relation to your distance from the goal. As soon as you cross the starting line, you are now short of the finish line.

Quitting on time usually feels like quitting too early, and the usually part is specifically when you're in the losses.

Government buffer-stock schemes are rife with politics, and instead of generating profits from buying low and selling high, they tend to generate losses.

I don't think people realize the extent to which TV networks are hurt when they carry public broadcasting. I think the estimate is that they lose a half-million dollars for a half day's programming.

costs of prevention and preparation are minuscule compared to the economic losses caused by an ineffective response to a crisis. More fundamentally, building in resilience creates stability of the most important kind, emotional stability.

Some people take defeat and losses a certain way. You see how some fighters take losses.

I still know I'm a true champion, I'm a great fighter, some of the best fighters of all time have a loss, or more than a couple of losses.