Top 225 Downside Quotes & Sayings

The downside of word processing - it's quite possible to never end a work-in-progress.

Manage the downside; the upside will take care of itself

There's no downside to having too much experience.

The downside of being a writer is you get plenty of time to overthink your life.

Shareholders share in the downside and not necessarily in the upside; that's the whole story.

I think one can easily make a case for taking out Saddam Hussein. In fact, one could probably be made on humanitarian grounds alone. But just as there's a downside risk to doing nothing about this man, there is a very serious downside risk to invading the country.

Photography ruins marriages, and I've been married three times - so there's a downside to it as well.

I can't think of a single downside to motherhood now.

The biggest downside of L.A. is the traffic and parking tickets. They turn me into Michael Douglas in 'Falling Down.'

Being bootstrapped is great. You own 100 percent of it. But the downside is that you aren't able to move as fast as you want.

The main downside was that it [fame] happened so quickly and I didn't have time to establish what kind of person I wanted to be.

Being eternally known as Bond has no downside.

The big upside to being captain is it's a huge honour, but the downside is that there is definitely extra pressure.

We spent a year touring the world and it wasn't until it was over that we truly appreciated the upside and downside of our success.

It is only by being bold that you get anywhere. If you are a risk-taker, then the art is to protect the downside.

Protect the downside. Worry about the margin of safety.

Inequality can have a bad downside, but equality, for its part, sure does get in the way of coordination.

It’s the downside of a family business: anything good is because I’m somebody’s son; otherwise, I’m a schmuck.

But I live an interesting life and I can tell a pretty good story and it has helped my career. But the downside is people know everything.

A downside to being a successful novelist? Wow - I can't imagine one.

But the upside of painful knowledge is so much greater than the downside of blissful ignorance.

Now, the downside to conservation is that so much is done for the public, which almost always mars the environment that one wanted to conserve.

I'd like to be rich, but without all the downside of fame.

But everything you do in life has a downside.

Graham liked the idea of protection on the downside.

You know, we always tried to rationalize by saying you take the good, you take the upside, you got to deal with the downside, you've to take the downside.

Of course, the downside of attending a fictional school is that our lacrosse team sucks.

There is a downside to having one of the biggest-selling albums ever.

The biggest downside to being a novelist is writing the novel.

The downside of aging is a slower metabolism and achy joints.The upside is a knowledge of self that prevents one from behaving like a baboon.

I think travel is probably the downside of playing professional golf, but you've got to do it.

As I have found out, recognition has its upside, its downside and – you may say – its backside.

I personally think the downside of being able to change into anything is the fear that you don't know who you really are.

Any legislator who says he doesn't see the downside hasn't done his homework

As I have found out, recognition has its upside, its downside and - you may say - its backside.

It's not your responsibility to have the bigger picture in mind. But, the downside is that then, a lot of times, you're disappointed by the movies that are made around you.

Eating ice cream and not exercising is great. The downside is your health isn't so good.

There's a downside to glamour and since I know that, I think that's why I have been able to stay grounded.

If I were president, I'd be very glad to see the Palestinians have a nation recognized by the United Nations. There's no downside to it.

We live in a world that builds people's expectations so high, so when the downside comes there is a knee-jerk reaction.

A little-appreciated downside of the technology revolution is that, mainly without thinking about it, we have given up 'locational privacy.'

The downside of videos is that it will put my vision in front of other people, so they might not get the chance to create their own.

The fame is the downside. I can't think of many positive things about it - except that when I go to parties, I don't have to stand there like a lemon.

Success doesn't have a downside for me. I'm busy, but I've always been busy whatever job I've had. My very first job working in a furniture factory was bloody busy! That's just modern life. It's not a downside, you just have to be organised and keep things in perspective.

Cancer changes your life, often for the better. You learn what's important, you learn to prioritize, and you learn not to waste your time. You tell people you love them. My friend Gilda Radner used to say, 'If it wasn't for the downside, having cancer would be the best thing and everyone would want it.' That's true. If it wasn't for the downside.

There is an unarguable downside to unbreakable encryption.

It turns out that the greatly underestimated downside of technological progress is a fractured world.

I have everything in my house organized to an unnecessary T, and I love it! The only downside: I have no excuses for losing my to-do lists.

That's the downside of playing for one of the top teams: that no matter how well you play, sometimes you have to step aside.

Take calculated risks and limit your downside.

The downside to series television is that the schedule is ferocious. It constantly feels like you have a midterm due that you haven't started yet.

It's not just always going to be easy and winning games; you have to go through the downside as well.

I have to be very aware of the increasing downside risks that threaten the overall global situation.

I think the downside of the Internet is that speaking-or writing-has become the point in and of itself.

There's no downside to fame and people who whine about it make me sick. It's the greatest thing in the world.

The downside isn't really injury, fear of injury or the process of fighting back from injury. The downside, the very worst thing in the world, is surgery.

There is no downside to winning. It feels forever fabulous.

It's great having the best league in the world, no doubt about that, but the downside of that is the national team will suffer.

The internet has huge advantages but its downside is the easy access to resources.

An interesting attribute of public banks is that they don't only de-risk the downside, but also get a share of the upside.