A Quote by Benjamin Franklin

Bad gains are true losses.

Benjamin Franklin

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Benjamin Franklin
American - Politician
January 17, 1706 - April 17, 1790

It is true that when we take chances, we stand to lose. But it is also true that we will never win anything if we never even enter the game. Lucky people are aware of the possibility of losing, and indeed they may lose often. But since the chances they take are small, the losses tend to be small. By being willing to accept small losses they put themselves in position to make large gains.

Max Gunther

Churches are more prosperous than at any time within the past several hundred years. But the alarming thing is that our gains are mostly external and our losses wholly internal; and since it is the quality of our religion that is affected by internal conditions, it may be that our supposed gains are but losses spread over a wider field.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Gain not base gains; base gains are the same as losses.

Hesiod

The strong are strengthened by reverses; the trouble is that the true meaning of events scores next to nothing in the match we play with men. Appearances decide our gains or losses and the points are trumpery. And a mere semblance of defeat may hopelessly checkmate us.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Do not seek dishonest gains: dishonest gains are losses.

Hesiod

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

Michael Mandelbaum

Trivial losses often prove great gains.

Ovid

I know the horrors of war: no gains can compensate for the losses it brings.

Adolf Hitler

All stakeholders must participate in the gains and losses of any particular situation.

Christine Lagarde

I believe the moral losses of expediency always far outweigh the temporary gains.

Wendell Willkie

If you think in terms of major losses, because losses loom much larger than gains - that's a very well-established finding - you tend to be very risk-averse. When you think in terms of wealth, you tend to be much less risk-averse.

Daniel Kahneman

If there is such a thing as saintly renunciation, it is renouncing small gains for better gains; not for no gains, but seeing with open eyes what is better and what is inferior. Even if the choice has to lie between two momentary gains, one of these would always be found to be more real and lasting; that is the one that should be followed for the time.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Every dimension of life, its gains and its losses, are reason for celebration because each of them brings us closer to wisdom and fullness of understanding.

Joan D. Chittister

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

Karl Rove

You learn more from your losses, than from your gains.

Paul Tudor Jones

No Child Left Behind's fourth-grade gains aren't learning gains, they're testing gains. That's why they don't last. The law is a distraction from things that really count.

Jonathan Kozol

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