#losses

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The joy of winning is not as dramatic as the losses were, because I expected us to win.


Jack Youngblood


#dramatic #expected #i #joy #losses

Investment banking has, in recent years, resembled a casino, and the massive scale of gambling losses has dragged down traditional business and retail lending activities as banks try to rebuild their balance sheets. This was one aspect of modern financial liberalisation that had dire consequences.


Vince Cable


#aspect #balance #balance sheets #banking #banks

The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.


Thomas Jefferson


#most #pays #seldom #successful #war

War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.


Thomas Jefferson


#inefficient #instead #instrument #losses #multiplies

The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses.


Thomas Jefferson


#expense #first #forehead #generals #good

When you have this many losses, you don't have a following.


Eddie Bernice Johnson


#losses #many #you

Mr. Obama has an ingenious approach to job losses: He describes them as job gains.


Karl Rove


#describes #gains #ingenious #job #job losses

The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.


A. C. Benson


#life #losses #misfortunes #sorrows #worst

... the structure of a page of good prose is, analyzed logically, not something frozen but the vibrating of a bridge, which changes with every step one takes on it


Robert Musil


#change

If a speculator is correct half of the time, he is hitting a good average. Even being right 3 or 4 times out of 10 should yield a person a fortune if he has the sense to cut his losses quickly on the ventures where he is wrong.


Bernard Baruch


#being #correct #cut #even #fortune