Quotes About Gain

When I walk into a room, I know my storytelling has value and I have to sell my idea. I have to help people see the financial value and gain in my work.

To not look at the data is foolish, but to look at the data as having all the answers is even more foolish. It is a collision of new-school statistics and statisticians against old-school managers, coaches, and instructors. Neither side is right, neither is wrong; there is so much to be gained from listening to both sides.

By the way, Dorian, he (Lord Henry) said, after a pause, what does it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose - how does the quotation run? - his own soul?

My dear fellow why have you any reason? What odd chaps you painters are. You do anything in the world to gain a reputation. As soon as you have one you seem to want to throw it away. It is silly of you for there is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

what does it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose'-how does the quotation run?-'his own soul'?

a los bárbaros se les caían de las botas, de las barbas, de los yelmos, de las herraduras, como piedrecitas, las palabras luminosas que se quedaron aquí resplandecientes... el idioma. Salimos perdiendo... Salimos ganando... Se llevaron el oro y nos dejaron el oro... Se lo llevaron todo y nos dejaron todo... Nos dejaron las palabras.

Yet comprehension does not imply belief. Nor does it mean that those who purvey such beliefs do so for more than… material gain.

Men could be drunk with pride, with passion, or with power. They could be drunken with hatred, or with the lust of gain.

Under these dreadful apprehensions I looked back on the life I had led with the utmost contempt and abhorrence. I blushed, and wondered at myself how I could act thus, how I could divest myself of modesty and honour, and prostitute myself for gain; and I thought, if ever it should please God to spare me this one time from death, it would not

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

A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.

I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire; it's rather excruciating-ly apt that you will use it to gain the reducto absurdum of all human experience.

There's nine times more to gain by elevating positive customers than by eliminating negative ones.

Total commitment is about being wise and smart, not necessarily being noble or virtuous. It's not so much about self-denial but about logic and common sense. It's not so much about what you lose; it's about what you gain.

But inside loss there can be gain, too,like the small silver spider Bela had discovered one dewy morning, curled asleep at the center of a rose.

He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.

Da gustosamente, 2 pues con ello sólo puedes beneficiarte.

George Bernard Shaw: "There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

A moment's pain can be a lifetime's gain.

Loss and gain are brothers twain.

Enormous gain includes enormous loss.

Everyone knows that where there is something that is capable of giving profit, then exploited it will be.

I prefer active vacations. I really like the adventure aspect of it, and I also like a trip with intentions, where something will be gained on the other side of it. But I also like the option to just be there.

The best reason for committing loathsome and detestable acts--and let's face it, I am considered something of an expert in this field--is purely for their own sake. Monetary gain is all very well, but it dilutes the taste of wickedness to a lower level that is obtainable by anyone with an overdeveloped sense of avarice. True and baseless evil is as rare as the purest good--and we all know how rare that is...