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Letter "P" » profit and loss
«The fact is that one side thinks that the profits to be won outweigh the risks to be incurred, and the other side would rather avoid danger than accept an immediate loss.»
Author: Thucydides
| About:
Facts,
Risk-taking
| Keywords:
immediate, incurred, incurring, incurs, outweigh, outweighing, outweighs, profits, profit and loss
«The most important thing in life is not to capitalize on your gains. Any fool can do that. The really important thing is to profit from your losses. That requires intelligence; and it makes the difference between a man of sense and a fool.»
«Ours is a system of corporate socialism, where companies capitalize their profits and socialize their losses...in effect, they tax you for their accidents, bungling, boondoggles, and mismanagement, just like a government. We should be able to dis-elect them.»
Author: Ralph Nader
(Activist, Lawyer)
| Keywords:
accidents, boondoggle, boondoggles, bungle, bungling, capitalize, companies, corporate, Dis, elect, in effect, losses, mismanagement, profits, profit and loss, socialism, socialize, socialized, socializing, tax system
«Cut your losses and let your profits run.»
«Everyday, people carry on their business, with all sorts of devices to earn interest, for the sake of Maya. If they earn a profit, they are pleased, but their hearts are broken by losses.»
Author: Sri Guru Granth Sahib
| Keywords:
profit and loss
«Those who meet the True Guru implant devotional worship to the Lord, and listen to this devotional worship of the Lord. They never suffer any loss; they continually earn the profit of the Lord.»
«When we can drain the Ocean into mill-ponds, and bottle up the Force of Gravity, to be sold by retail, in gas jars; then may we hope to comprehend the infinitudes of man's soul under formulas of Profit and Loss; and rule over this too, as over a patent engine, by checks, and valves, and balances.»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
| Keywords:
balances, bottle, bottle up, checks, comprehend, drain, engine, formulas, gravity, infinitude, infinitudes, jars, mill, Mills, patent, patented, ponds, profit and loss, retail, retailing, sold, valve
«It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice; I consider the real vice is making losses.»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
| Keywords:
losses, profits, profit and loss, socialist, socialists, The Socialist
«The substance of the eminent Socialist gentleman's speech is that making a profit is a sin, but it is my belief that the real sin is taking a loss»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
| About:
Sin,
Socialism,
Speech
| Keywords:
eminent, profit and loss, socialist
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