William Greider Quotes

No man profiteth but by the loss of others.

The economy must provide justice as well as prosperity.

A scene of misery and gloomy despair of a community of people who have been plunged abruptly from prosperity to a complete want of the most essential things of life.

American economic greatness has never trickled down from the top.

When things get better, there's a swing to the pendulum where things get worse for others.

It's not like you take the right turning and you get everlasting happiness and you take the wrong one and your life's a disaster. In real life it's often impossible to tell which decision is the one you should make because what you stand to gain and what you stand to lose are sometimes-often-neck and neck.

What You Lose on the Swings You Make Up on the Merry-Go-Round.

Gain cannot be made without some other person's loss.

If a man knows he will sooner or later be robbed upon a journey, he will have a bottle of the best in every inn, and look upon all his extravagances as so much gained upon the thieves.

On the one hand, loss implies gain; on the other hand, gain implies loss.

Unequal combinations are always disadvantageous to the weaker side.

Everything good I've ever gotten in life, I only got because I gave something else up.

Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.

One man gathers what another man spills

it is true that nothing is gained without something being lost: everyone knows that in fulfilling oneself one necessarily sacrifices some possibilities.

For every loss, there is a hidden gain. And for every gain, there is a hidden loss.

Wealth inequality has increased.

Finding is losing something else. I think about, perhaps even mourn, what I lost to find this

When life takes away, something of greater value is always given in return.

The Gods give with one hand and take with the other.

Nature distributes her favors unequally.

Our world was created with a sense of order. For every loss, there is a gain. Sometimes we are so blinded by the loss that we don't see the gain, don't recognize the gift.

Something's lost, but something's gained, in living everyday.

If, along the way, something is gained, then something will also be lost.

Take the probability of loss times the amount of possible loss from the probability of gain times the amount of possible gain. That is what we're trying to do. It's imperfect, but that's what it's all about.