Quotes About Gain

The very idea of exercise is to gain from antifragility to workout stressors—as we saw, all kinds of exercise are just exploitations of convexity effects.

antifragility equals more to gain than to lose equals more upside than downside equals asymmetry (favorable) equals likes volatility.

I engage in a gambling strategy that has 999 chances in 1,000 of making $ 1 (event A) and 1 chance in 1,000 of losing $ 10,000 (event B), as in Table 6.1. My expectation is a loss of close to $ 9 (obtained by multiplying the probabilities by the corresponding outcomes).

So what counts is the payoff from success.

which a loss is more painful than a gain is pleasant):

gives me some form of advantage.

There's a very old expression, Scythe Goddard told him. 'To be painless is to be gainless.

Today I am determined to rejoice in what we've gained, rather than what was lost. Both in the world, and personally.

as was true of all human effort, there was never advancement. Everything added meant something lost, and about as often as not the thing lost was preferable to the thing gained.

Toda era tem sua loucura peculiar; algum plano, projeto ou fantasia em que mergulha, estimulada pelo amor do ganho, pela necessidade de emoção ou pela simples força da imitação. Se tudo isso falhar, ela ainda assim possui uma loucura, a que é incitada por causas políticas ou religiosas, ou por ambas combinadas. (from O mundo assombrado pelos demônios: A ciência vista como uma vela no escuro by Carl Sagan, Charles Mackay)

Every age has its peculiar folly; some scheme, project, or phantasy into which it plunges, spurred on either by the love of gain, the necessity of excitement, or the mere force of imitation. Failing in these, it has some madness, to which it is goaded by political of religious causes, or both combined.

Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.

A desire of gain is common to mankind, and the general motive to business and industry.

For the love of gain would reconcile the weaker to the dominion of the stronger, and the possession of capital enabled the more powerful to reduce the smaller towns to subjection. And it was at a somewhat later stage of this development that they went on the expedition against Troy.

For the love of gain would reconcile the weaker to the dominion of the stronger, and the possession of capital enabled the more powerful to reduce the smaller towns to subjection.

Gain cannot be made without loss to someone else.

A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses.

Third basic law of human stupidity: A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring loss.

From action or inaction each one of us derives a gain or a loss and at the same time one causes a gain or a loss to some one else.

Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it - short-term pain for long-term gain.

You are the hope and the promise for change. Without you, not only can't we accomplish what needs to be done, we will lose everything we have gained." As

Spirituality not rooted in the reality of life's material needs rarely effects a meaningful gain.

There are three classes of men-lovers of wisdom, lovers of honour, lovers of gain.

What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?