Gains Quotes

He is truly wise who gains wisdom from another's mishap.

At least half of the popular fallacies about economics come from assuming that economic activity is a zero-sum game, in which what is gained by someone is lost by someone else. But transactions would not continue unless both sides gained, whether in international trade, employment, or renting an apartment.

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

The United States invaded Iraq to gain control of one of the major sources of the world's energy.

I always thought, 'That's just the way you do it.' You work as hard as you can for as long as you can, and the small gains you make will eventually pay off.

Hope has often caused the love of gain to ruin men.

He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.

All that one gains by falsehood is, not to be believed when he speaks the truth.

You never gain something but that you lose something.

He that gains well and spends well needs no count book.

Aristotle was once asked what those who tell lies gain by it. Said he - That when they speak truth they are not believed.

Great leaders gain authority by giving it away.

The least outlay is not always the greatest gain.

People will do more to avoid pain than they will do to gain pleasure.

In the gain or loss of one race all the rest have equal claim.

In the Middle Ages when the feudal lords ... to enlarge their domains, to increase their power, their prestige and their wealth they declared war upon one another. But they themselves did not go to war any more than the modern feudal lords, the barons of Wall Street go to war. The feudal barons of the Middle Ages, the economic predecessors of the capitalists of our day, declared all wars. And their miserable serfs fought all the battles…. The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles. The master class has had all to gain and nothing to lose, while the subject class has had nothing to gain and all to lose.

Whatever you compromise to gain, you will lose.

I shall gain glory or die.

Despite the encouraging and wonderful gains and the changes for women which have occurred in my lifetime, there is still room to advance and to promote correction of the remaining deficiencies and imbalances.

Experience has proved to me that real money made in speculating has been in commitments in a stock or commodity showing a profit right from the start.

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.

A president has to provide leadership to gain support.

Except in the rare cases of great dynamic thinkers whose thoughts are as turning-points in the history of our race, it is by Style that writers gain distinction, by Style they secure their immortality.

In a philosophical dispute, he gains most who is defeated, since he learns most.

I worry that we risk losing the hard-won gains that have made America a safer and more prosperous place.