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“In many ways, large profits are even more insidious than large losses in terms of emotional destabilization. I think it's important not to be emotionally attached to large profits. I've certainly made some of my worst trades after long periods of winning. When you're on a big winning streak, there's a temptation to think that you're doing something special, which will allow you to continue to propel yourself upward. You start to think that you can afford to make shoddy decisions. You can imagine what happens next. As a general rule, losses make you strong and profits make you weak.”

Thinking Way Long Made Important Bigs Happens Next Winning Strong Term Loss Decision Imagine Worst Special Emotional Periods Weak Trade Profit Temptation Something Special Streaks Insidious

Author:William Eckhardt

“It's got to be the best intellectual exercise out there. You're seeing through new situations every ten minutes. In the stock market you don't base your decisions on what the market is doing, but on what you think is rational. Bridge is about weighing gain/loss ratios. You're doing calculations all the time.”

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Author:Warren Buffett

“The defensive (or passive) investor will place chief emphasis on the avoidance of serious mistakes or losses. His second aim will be freedom from effort, annoyance, and the need for making frequent decisions.”

Needs Loss Decision Effort Mistake Serious Aim Investing Chiefs Investors Passive Emphasis Avoidance Annoyance Serious Mistakes

Book:The Intelligent Investor, Rev. Ed

Source: The Intelligent Investor, Rev. Ed

“When people think of the outcomes of their decisions, they think much more short term than that. They think in terms of gains and losses.”

People Thinking Term Loss Decision Gains Outcomes Short Term Gains And Losses

Author:Daniel Kahneman

“FEMA says that it does not factor in previous losses into its decisions on applications to redraw the flood zones.”

Doe Loss Decision Factors Zone Application Flood

Author:Bill Dedman

“A wrong decision isn't forever; it can always be reversed. The losses from a delayed decision are forever; they can never be retrieved.”

Loss Decision Forever Delayed Wrong Decision

Book:A life in our times: memoirs

Source: A life in our times: memoirs

“Capital does not 'beget profit' as Marx thought. The capital goods as such are dead things that in themselves do not accomplish anything. If they are utilized according to a good idea, profit results. If they are utilized according to a mistaken idea, no profit or losses result. It is the entrepreneurial decision that creates either profit or loss.”

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Book:Planning for freedom, and twelve other essays and addresses

Source: Planning for freedom, and twelve other essays and addresses

“Superior leaders are willing to admit a mistake and cut their losses. Be willing to admit that you've changed your mind. Don't persist when the original decision turns out to be a poor one.”

Mind Turns Loss Decision Poor Mistake Leader Cutting Changed Willing Originals Superiors Persist You've Changed

Author:Brian Tracy

“Between calculated risk and reckless decision-making lies the dividing line between profit and loss.”

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Author:Charles Duhigg

“When you start with why, which decision you make becomes very easy. It is so hard to do when you may suffer a short term loss or you may lose out on some short term gain. But in the long run it's way more powerful and way more stable.”

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Author:Simon Sinek

“Because they claim to be concerned with the welfare of whole societies, governments arrogate to themselves the right to pass off as mere abstract profit or loss the human unhappiness that their decisions provoke or their negligence permits. It is a duty of an international citizenship to always bring the testimony of people's suffering to the eyes and ears of governments, sufferings for which it's untrue that they are not responsible. The suffering of men must never be a mere silent residue of policy. It grounds an absolute right to stand up and speak to those who hold power.”

“Wheather it is conscious or not, you eventually make the decision to divide your life in half - before and after - with loss being that tight bubble in the middle. You can move around in spite of it; you can laugh and smile and carry on with your life, but all it takes is one slow range of motion, a doubling over, to be fully aware of the empty space at your center.”

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Book:The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes

Source: The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes