Long-Term Loss Quotes

When a party sheds it principles for victory, it will inevitably end up with neither.

While you're trying to save your face, you're losing your ass.

... the forces of power, particularly corporate power, are impatient with what is adequate for a coherent community. Because power gains so little from community in the short run, it does not hesitate to destroy community for the long run.

Who buys a minute's mirth to wail a week? Or sell eternity to get a toy? For one grape who will the vine destroy?

Every act of folly can be justified by the deed that preceded it.

Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.

Gain at the expense of reputation is manifest loss.

Follow the money at all costs, and you might wind up regretting it.

I don't know if winning at any cost is wrong or not. There are times I've thought that the end justified the means.

I can't shoot myself in the foot before I get in the chorus line.

Sometimes people want change just to change. It doesn't mean it's going to be better.

Buying an aggregator and calling it a content play is a little like a company's announcing plans to improve its cash position by hiring a counterfeiter.

It's fool's gold if you are winning games and are not playing the right way.

I have made mistakes in my career by associating with films which were mediocre because I needed money at that time.

If you bet on individuals instead of the people, you are going to fail.

Fossil fuels and mining is a short-term gambit. If we develop those resources at the expense of the environmental gold mine that is the Great Barrier Reef, we will all lose in the long run.

I learned the hard way that taking shortcuts and living for free is not really living free.

Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.

If you take the approach that you want to scrape every last nickel off the table, that'll work one or two times, but after awhile, your reputation will precede you.

Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.

The conventional wisdom is that to win an election, you have to dumb it down and play to your constituencies' basest, divisive instincts. And when somebody wins an election like that, they win, that's true, but the rest of us lose. The conventional wisdom is that to win an election, you have to dumb it down and play to your constituencies' basest, divisive instincts. And when somebody wins an election like that, they win, that's true, but the rest of us lose.

When I came to the U.S., I tried to take shortcuts to make money - but everything crashed.

Don't sell your soul to buy peanuts for the monkeys.

There are times when a falsehood well told bridges over quite a difficulty, but in the long run, you had better tell the truth, even if you swim the creek.

Advocates of pump priming forget that they are draining the well.