Quotes About Gain

When you look at the Nixon pardon, the short-term gain would have been never to pardon him.

If the satisfaction to be derived from each successive increase in wealth is smaller than the satisfaction derived from the previous increase in wealth, then the disutility caused by a loss will always exceed the positive utility provided by a gain of equal size.

Part of the reason why movie bosses are so obsessed with crime movies is because they know that world and the criminals. And that's what they are - they would not hesitate to act illegally to achieve profit and gain.

For me to live is Christ; to die is gain." 1:21

When the commander-in-chief sends Americans to fight and die, it should be only to protect our vital national interests, not for his own personal, political gain.

No matter how many times the court shuts them down or how many Americans speak out to defend their rights, Republican politicians who stand to gain from suppressing voters won't back down. They'll only change their tactics.

No hay pérdida que no implique una ganancia

There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.

Did you get it back?" "Of coarse, the very next day. And even if I hadn't-because there have been things I've been asked to give up for good... Well, over the years here I've learned that sometimes a great loss is also a great gain." Under the slowly swirling freckles, Doc's face looked infinitely sad. Somehow I didn't find that reassuring.

What is got by begging is dearly bought.

When you're writing for an actor like Steve - or, for that matter, any actor - you gain a lot by being able to fashion the material to their strengths. But you lose some when it comes to characterization, because you're going to avoid things that don't show off that actor in the best light.

The greed of gain has no time or limit to its capaciousness. Its one object is to produce and consume. It has pity neither for beautiful nature nor for living human beings. It is ruthlessly ready without a moment's hesitation to crush beauty and life out of them, molding them into money.

Perfect gain is the best of all; but if that is impossible, then the next best gain is perfect losing.

Sometimes, I said, the loss of transition became the gain of simplicity.

Winning is good for your bottom line.

My biggest win was getting the meal money bumped from $5 to $7.

Success doesn't demand a price. Every step forward pays a dividend.

If you have a good movie in hand and it is successful, you gain confidence to experiment.

No one hit home runs the way Babe did. They were something special. They were like homing pigeons. The ball would leave the bat, pause briefly, suddenly gain its bearings, then take off for the stands.

But in practice, if often comes down to not suffering a loss as big as the huge gain you made a while ago.

As the advertising industry, which is dedicated to the creation of masks, makes clear, that which cannot gain authority from tradition may borrow it with a mask.

Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. It undergoes continual changes; it is barbarous, it is civilized, it is christianized, it is rich, it is scientific; but this change is not amelioration. For every thing that is given, something is taken.

No fantasy, no reality. No studies concerning loss, no gain. No imagination, no will. No impossible dreams: No possible solutions.

Or you may be such a thunderingly exalted creature as to be altogether deaf and blind to anything but heavenly sights and sounds. Then the earth for you is only a standing place- whether to be like this is your loss or your gain I won't pretend to say.