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Losses Quotes

Sitting honestly with setbacks.

These losses quotes look at setbacks from several angles - how leaders sometimes reframe job losses, how policy always carries both gains and losses, and simply how hard it is to sit with Bad outcomes.

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

Quotes by A. C. Benson

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

Thomas Jefferson

War is a racket. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.

Quotes by Smedley Butler

I've learned a lot from my mistakes, stumbles, and losses in football.

Quotes by Peyton Manning

About Quotes

All policy is a matter of gains and losses, upsides and downsides.

Quotes by Michael Mandelbaum

It's hard dealing with wins and losses.

Quotes by Matt LaFleur

Success means making profits and avoiding losses.

Quotes by Martin Zweig

I don't care about losses anymore.

Quotes by Marat Safin

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

Quotes by Karl Rove

Approach Quotes

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

Quotes by Eddie Bernice Johnson

Mark-to-market losses are not real loss. It's a notional loss.

Quotes by Chanda Kochhar

There are going to be losses. There are going to be bad plays. There are going to be mistakes.

Quotes by Carson Wentz

FEMA says that it does not factor in previous losses into its decisions on applications to redraw the flood zones.

Quotes by Bill Dedman

The Federal Reserve has never suffered any losses in the course of its normal lending to banks and, now, to primary dealers.

Quotes by Ben Bernanke

Avoiding Quotes

All the things I went through, my losses, those really helped me.

Quotes by Amanda Nunes

Frequently Asked Questions

What kinds of losses do these quotes cover?
A mix - job losses, wartime losses, financial and policy trade-offs, and the general experience of losing in competition.
Is there a political quote about job losses?
Yes, one criticizes how job losses can get described in more flattering terms than they deserve.
Do any quotes connect losses to war?
One argues that war is a poor tool for truly making up for wrongs or losses, since it tends to multiply harm instead.
Is there a quote about policy trade-offs?
Yes, one frames all policy decisions as involving both gains and losses, ups and downs.
Do these quotes offer comfort about losing?
Not really comfort so much as honesty - one simply admits that living with both wins and losses is genuinely hard.

One even questions whether war can ever truly redress a loss, a reminder that About every loss carries a cost that's hard to fully offset.