Quotes About Upside

The worse a situation becomes the less it takes to turn it around, the bigger the upside.

Capitalism works only when institutions are forced to absorb the consequences of the risks that they take on. When banks can pocket the upside while spreading the cost of their failures, failure is almost certain.

Like a fool, I fell in love with you, Turned my whole world upside down

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.

There was a shift in time about 2,000 years ago. Like a polar shift, everything in the Spiritual universe turned upside down from what it was before.

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.

I learned," he said, "you always tell people how badly you've been running the goddamned company, so they've got some upside.

That is why, with optimism instead of fear, all those who want to see Puerto Rico's status resolved should seek the truth about each option, including the upside and the downside of each.

Seneca and stoicism as a back door to explain why everything antifragile has to have more upside than downside

anything that has more upside than downside from random events (or certain shocks) is antifragile; the reverse is fragile.

Seneca's version of that Stoicism is antifragility from fate. No downside from Lady Fortuna, plenty of upside.

And we can almost always detect antifragility (and fragility) using a simple test of asymmetry: anything that has more upside than downside from random events (or certain shocks) is antifragile; the reverse is fragile.

the nonlinearity (that is, the asymmetry, with more upside than downside; asymmetry is a form of nonlinearity).

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

Ripples in the upside down lake of the void . . . The bottom of the world is gold and the world is upside down

The bottom of the world is gold and the world is upside down.

Instead of the White House, why not take our visiting space alien to ComicCon. We'd have legitimate concerns that nobody would notice an actual alien camouflaged among those pretending to be one. The upside? Our alien visitor phones home and instead reports—"They're just like us!

the amount of maintenance involving hair is genuinely overwhelming. Sometimes I think that not having to worry about your hair anymore is the secret upside of death.

We begin, I'm sorry to say, with hair. I'm sorry to say it because the amount of maintenance involving hair is genuinely overwhelming. Sometimes I think that not having to worry about your hair anymore is the secret upside of death.

As I have found out, recognition has its upside, its downside and - you may say - its backside.

I find as long as I acknowledge the truth of something, then that's it. I know what it is and then I can operate. But if I overestimate the downside of something or the challenge of something and I get too obsessed about the difficulty of it, then I don't leave enough room to be open to the upside, the possibility.

I do things because I enjoy it. That used to be my downfall, but now it's the upside.

Shareholders share in the downside and not necessarily in the upside; that's the whole story.

I prefer catchy, passionate, temperamental music. And as an upside of that, Ghost's repertoire has, over the years, been piqued by a few, sort of, hits.