Quotes about los
lost said
Lewis Carroll You're not the same as you were before," he said. You were much more... muchier... you've lost your muchness.
loss people income
Beryl Bainbridge There are many things in this life capable of throwing people off course - the death of someone close, the loss of income or health, the realisation that cherished hopes cannot always be fulfilled
lost profit lost-money
Bernard Baruch I never lost money by turning a profit.
loss men yield
Bernard Baruch Society can progress if men's labors show a profit - if they yield more than is put in. To produce at a loss must leave less for all to share.
loss men trying
Bernard Baruch Learn to take losses quickly and cleanly. There is something about inside information which seems to paralyze a man's reasoning powers. Beware of barbers, beauticians, waiters - or anyone - bringing gifts of 'inside' information or tips. Don't try to be a jack of all investment. Stick to the field you know best.
loss worst best-things
Cass Sunstein It's deeply human to do both the worst things and the best things because of your fear of loss.
lost audience
Carlos Fuentes I've lost audiences, I've recovered them.
lost found
C. S. Lewis Am I lost or just less found?
losing stop trying
Howard Schultz We have no alternative. This is not a philanthropic venture. We're not trying to make money, we just want to stop losing (money).
loss ill-health anxiety
Agnes Repplier If we could make up our minds to spare our friends all details of ill health, of money losses, of domestic annoyances, of altercations, of committee work, of grievances, provocations, and anxieties, we should sin less against the world's good-humor. It may not be given us to add to the treasury of mirth; but there is considerable merit in not robbing it.
loss ifs
Charles Taylor There is a widespread sense of loss here, if not always of God, then at least of meaning.
loss circles confusion
Charles Dudley Warner The world so quickly adjusts itself after any loss, that the return of the departed would nearly always throw it, even the circle most interested, into confusion.
loss terror-attacks pay
Chesley Sullenberger With the 2001 terror attacks, airline bankruptcies, pension terminations, loss of pay, changes in work rules — we're all working harder and longer than we used to.
loss people break
Cheryl Hines When you're young, the loss that you experience when you break up with somebody, that's the loss of a relationship. And the older you get, you actually lose people to death and you lose those relationships, too.
loss dust vampire
Charlaine Harris I so seldom had to dispose of a human body myself, I was at a loss. Fairies turned into dust, and vampires flaked away. Demons had to be burned. Humans were very troublesome.
loss stories way
Charlie Kaufman There really is only one ending to any story. Human life ends in death. Until then, it keeps going and gets complicated and there's loss. Everything involves loss; every relationship ends in one way or another.
loss player thinking
Charlie Munger And your brain doesn't naturally know how to think the way Zeckhauser knows how to play bridge. "for example," people do not react symmetrically to loss and gain. Well maybe a great bridge player like Zeckhauser does, but that's a trained response. Ordinary people, subconsciously affected by their inborn tendencies...
loss years nuts
Charlie Munger Using [a stock's] volatility as a measure of risk is nuts. Risk to us is 1) the risk of permanent loss of capital, or 2) the risk of inadequate return. Some great businesses have very volatile returns - for example, See's [a candy company owned by Berkshire] usually loses money in two quarters of each year - and some terrible businesses can have steady results.
loss nuts risk
Charlie Munger Using volatility as a measure of risk is nuts. Risk to us is 1) the risk of permanent loss of capital, or 2) the risk of inadequate return.
loss second-chance firsts
Charlie Munger The first chance you have to avoid a loss from a foolish loan is by refusing to make it; there is no second chance.
loss america world
Bob Barr The main international problem facing America is our lack of - our loss of influence in the world and our lack of an ability to define what U.S. interests really are.
loss people world
Birch Bayh And I thought my loss was not, certainly, the end of the world, but to lessen the enthusiasm of those young people who were signed up, I thought that was tragic.
loss gains accepting
Benjamin Hoff Treat gain and loss the same.' Don't be Intimidated. Don't make a Big Deal of anything - just accept things as they come to you.
losing remember
Yeah, I remember us losing a 16-point lead.
losing understand whether winning
Whether we're on a three-game winning or losing streak, you can understand that that's not everything.
lose rights
You don't lose all your rights in prison.
loss respect treat water
We respect the water, and use the water. We don't just let it go down the drain. We treat this water like gold. The only water loss is evaporation.
lost
We're smelling blood, too. They lost to Michigan. We're all the same right now.
losing volume
What we're losing in volume we're making up in price.
lost phone stopped
Liz Carpenter What a lot we lost when we stopped writing letters. You can't reread a phone call.
loss worst greatest-gifts
Byron Katie The worst loss you've ever experienced is the greatest gift you can have.
loss earthquakes mind
Byron Katie A lover of what is looks forward to everything: life, death, disease, loss, earthquakes, bombs, anything the mind might be tempted to call 'bad.' Life will bring us everything we need, to show us what we haven't undone yet. Nothing outside ourselves can make us suffer. Except for our unquestioned thoughts, every place is paradise.