‘Throw the losses away.’ The family mantra.
Tony La Russa is considered among the best in his business. Yet nearly half the time he led his organizations into competition, they were defeated – 2,728 wins, 2,365 losses.
Many people think that buying a fake product is harmless, but counterfeiting is estimated to result in annual losses of over $20 billion dollars to American companies.
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.
So I never forget how lucky I am. That’s the reason above all else why I’m determined to keep enjoying cricket, whatever the wins or the losses. As long as I do that then the runs will come.
My losses were based on things I did in training, and luck also plays out during the fight.
In the NBA, it’s wins and losses. You don’t have to deal with some of the hypocrisy of college athletics.
Of course, every time I get beat out there, I want to avenge those losses. I’m sure every fighter does.
I regret and suffer those losses, but it’s God’s will. He will pardon me if I committed excesses, but I don’t think I did.
All those races, all those victories and losses, it’s as if they happened to someone else.
For rather particular reasons, the interior-design industry moved more quickly than fashion to cope with AIDS. One reason is that it is made up of generally smaller businesses than fashion. The human losses were more quickly noticed.
It’s good to win. Losses aren’t good, and draws are O.K.
Success means making profits and avoiding losses.
The strongest feelings I experienced were in Davis Cup. It was the most powerful thing: the victories and the losses. It hits you in a distinct way. It’s another level of satisfaction – another level of sadness.
In 1993, I chased Cuban and Spanish drag trawlers off the Grand Banks off of Newfoundland. And it cost them $35 million in losses.
History is replete with examples of moments in time when we talk about deficit reduction and try to advance on it around the world, that is, where it leads to job losses, not job creation.
There is a recurring temptation for any nation, and for any writer who operates within its field of force, to make an ornament of the past: to turn the losses to victories and to restate humiliations as triumphs.
You have to learn to be a healthy competitor, winning or losing. Because there can be a lot more losses than there are wins.
A financial institution has the task of taking risks, and if it’s a well run institution – say, Goldman Sachs – it tries to cover the potential losses to itself, but only to itself.
I’ve learned a lot from my mistakes, stumbles, and losses in football.
The National Flood Insurance Program is a valuable tool in addressing the losses incurred throughout this country due to floods. It assures that businesses and families have access to affordable flood insurance that would not be available on the open market.
All your losses will be made up to you in the resurrection, provided you continue faithful. By the vision of the Almighty I have seen it.
Equity is the cushion that protects financial institutions from unexpected changes in the value of their assets. The greater the leverage, the smaller the losses required to wipe out a company’s equity, leaving it without enough money to repay the people who hold its debt.
Sometimes losses come and it’s hard.
I have losses to Machida and Lovato, and I’m going to avenge them both.
Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.
The factors that have been holding farmers back are similar to those that threaten other types of growth in Africa. Infrastructure and transport are in many cases quite poor, resulting in the losses of huge amounts of produce.
I do not send their Lordships the particulars of our losses and damages by this, as it would take me much time; and I am willing none should be lost in letting them know an event of such consequence.
If we can’t face our losses, we can’t be present either fully to everything that is. When people have cut off or not made peace with some part of themselves, they miss out on other aspects of life.
When you suffer a few losses in the playoffs, it forces you back into the gym early on.
After you have wept and grieved for your physical losses, cherish the functions and the life you have left.
Best memories – obviously, winning a title for the first time. Probably my last fight against Gray Maynard where I was able to finish him for the trilogy. Those were definitely great moments. The worst moments are the losses, for sure.
The absolute worst part of my job is having to cut people. I have to cut people after every show, that’s just how it goes. But I don’t judge you on wins and losses. What I do care about is a great fight.
The successful entrepreneurs on the free market will be the ones most adept at anticipating future business conditions. Yet, the forecasting can never be perfect, and entrepreneurs will continue to differ in the success of their judgments. If this were not so, no profits or losses would ever be made in business.
Coming from a standing background in striking, I couldn’t catch up to the guys with 20-plus years of training on the ground. I had to learn submissions. I found out it wasn’t an easy road. I had six losses in a row, but I still felt I was the best fighter in the world.
I’d like to have all of my losses back. But it’s too late for that.
No matter what losses happen in a given season, the Red Sox always have next year.
You’re writing about young, vibrant people; there are wins and losses. In other words, it’s great drama.
When I competed in jiu-jitsu and judo, I had losses. We never accept to lose, but we learn that it’s not the end of the world. It’s not.
I just love playing so much, competing so much. You’re able to put your losses behind you. One of the greatest attributes a decathlete can have is the ability to forget… to look ahead, not behind.
Everybody goes through ups and downs and wins and losses, bumps in the road, and I don’t let anything like that slow me down.
It was really tough as a kid going to a Braves game. It was a guaranteed loss. You’re looking at 100 losses a year. I was a huge baseball fan, played it for quite a while. But when ’91 happened, with Smoltz and Glavine, it turned around, and I will say it made it pretty sweet.
Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.
In the account book of the Great War the page recording the Russian losses has been ripped out. The figures are unknown. Five millions, or eight? We ourselves know not.
I’ve been on successful teams pretty much my whole career, but even those two seasons I finished with Memphis and Minnesota, you learn just as much from adversity and losses as you do from success.
The assumption that Washington could and would resolve Lehman Brothers without a bankruptcy, as it had Bear Stearns, was the single biggest mistake in the series of mistakes in 2007 and 2008 that led to the financial panic and the ensuing epidemic of job losses.
I’m fascinated by characters who are faced with big losses and have to put their lives back together again.
You’ve seen it in the news – the radical left in our country, stinging from their 2016 election losses, has become increasingly desperate and unhinged. They want nothing more than to push their snowflake agenda on the entire nation, and our conservative Georgia values are under attack like never before.
Make the financial industry pay for its mistakes. That’s the idea behind the best of the Obama administration’s reform proposals: If banks issue securities backed by mortgages, say, then require them to hold some of that paper so that they will bear some of the losses.
To a large extent, equity investors put their hard-earned capital into the hands of management and count on it being employed skilfully and honestly. When that doesn’t happen, losses typically follow.
In America, people with lots of money can easily avoid the consequences of bad bets and big losses by cashing out at the first sign of trouble.
During World War II, the pilot losses were staggering. In some bombing raids, as many as 80% of the planes that left did not return.
It tastes sweeter when you come close and suffer some really painful losses.
As Americans, we shouldn’t like bailouts. Where I come from, if someone takes a risk and they’re going to make the profit from that risk, they shouldn’t have the taxpayer pay for the losses.
Losses are always hard to swallow, and every sportsperson has the same feeling.
I try to live in the moment and I learn from my losses.
No company that I ever hacked into reported any damages, which they were required to do for significant losses.
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.
You don’t know how to take losses. It’s tough.
I want one of the top three, but if they aren’t available, we’ll pick someone else. There are some good young fighters, undefeated guys, and guys with wins and losses on their record.
