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Quotes About Downside

Fear tends to manifest itself much more quickly than greed, so volatile markets tend to be on the downside. In up markets, volatility tends to gradually decline.
~ Philip Roth
Well," he said, "the downside of having no barriers between doctors and patients was that everyone became a patient." There
~ Jon Ronson
It's great having the best league in the world, no doubt about that, but the downside of that is the national team will suffer.
~ Sam Allardyce
Every job has its downside. For example, being in a band the travel part of it - getting picked up from your house in a car, going to the airport, getting on a plane, going from the airplane to a van, then going from the van to a hotel.
~ Dave Lombardo
Take calculated risks and limit your downside.
~ Theo Paphitis
I do think... gene technology has got real benefits to offer, which will have maybe an occasional downside, but I suspect not very many.
~ Princess Anne
Of course, the downside of attending a fictional school is that our lacrosse team sucks.
~ Ally Carter
The fame is the downside. I can't think of many positive things about it - except that when I go to parties, I don't have to stand there like a lemon.
~ Michael Buble
limit the downside cultural and business risks.
~ Rita Gunther McGrath
collars or straddles are used to protect both the up- and the downside risks and opportunities.
~ Robert T. Kiyosaki
For me, the main principle for broadcasters has to be that if people stand to benefit from an interview, they should be prepared to face some downside as well.
~ Evan Davis
Most decisions have a mix of upside and downside potentials. When figuring out whether a decision is good or bad, you are essentially asking if the upside potential compensates for the risk of the downside.
~ Annie Duke
But just because there are a lot of benefits to setting goals doesn't mean that there isn't a downside to them as well. As you might already suspect, clearly defined finish lines should come with a warning: Danger, you may experience escalation of commitment.
~ Annie Duke
My view is that the U.S. market will eventually join the emerging markets on the downside because if you take a bearish view about emerging economies, you cannot be too optimistic about the U.S. because for many U.S. corporations, 50 percent or more of their profits come from emerging economies.
~ Marc Faber
Celebrities are the fodder of much of the media business, so they're always interested in making you seem provocative when you're not, or trying to bring you some sort of embarrassment by revealing something you'd rather not have revealed. That's the downside of celebrity.
~ Todd Rundgren
My story really is incredible. It's got a bunch of story lines - the garage-built thing. I'm an older guy. It's out in the middle of nowhere, plus the flat Earth. The problem is it brings out all the nuts also, people questioning everything. It's the downside of all this.
~ Mike Hughes
We live in a world that builds people's expectations so high, so when the downside comes there is a knee-jerk reaction.
~ Sam Allardyce
Some of the very greatest gifts bring an inevitable downside which you cannot "cure" without curing the gift at the same time.
~ Stephanie S. Tolan
Possibly I was overthinking this. I do that; it's the anxiety that comes with being a part-organic murderbot. The upside was paranoid attention to detail. The downside was also paranoid attention to detail.
~ Martha Wells
WATCH YOUR DOWNSIDE It's often said that opportunity is as important as risk. That's false. Risk can kill you or your project. No upside can compensate for that. For fat-tailed risk, which is present in most projects, forget about forecasting risk; go directly to mitigation by spotting and eliminating dangers.
~ Bent Flyvbjerg
A downside to being a successful novelist? Wow - I can't imagine one.
~ Andrew Sean Greer
Mutual funds are the ultimate way for a defensive investor to capture the upside of stock ownership without the downside of having to police your own portfolio.
~ Benjamin Graham
We have found a direct correlation between grit and positive emotions, but the fact that I have no evidence that grit is bad for you doesn't mean it's not. It's always a possibility that in the future researchers will discover a downside to grit.
~ Angela Duckworth
There is an upside to ignorance, and a downside to knowledge. Knowledge makes life messier. It makes it a bit more difficult for a person who wishes to shrink the world to a worldview.
~ Michael Lewis