“He who blinded by ambition, raises himself to a position whence he cannot mount higher, must thereafter fall with the greatest loss.” FallLossPositionHigherAmbitionRaisesMy AmbitionBlinded Author:Niccolo Machiavelli
“Price fixing does not represent simply windfall gains and losses to particular groups according to whether the price happens to be set higher or lower than it would be otherwise. It represents a net lose to the economy as a whole to the extent that many transactions do not take place at all, because the mutually acceptable possibilities have been reduced.” DoeHas BeensWholeHappensWould BeLosesLossEconomyGroupsPossibilityParticularHigherGainsAcceptableFixingTransactionsGains And Losses Author:Thomas Sowell
“Any strategy that involves crossing a valley accepting short-term losses to reach a higher hill in the distance will soon be brought to a halt by the demands of a system that celebrates short-term gains and tolerates stagnation, but condemns anything else as failure. In short, a world where big stuff can never get done.” WorldDoneBigsStuffTermLossAcceptingHigherDemandGainsStrategyDistanceCelebrateHillsValleysTolerateShort TermCrossingsHaltStagnationBig Stuff Author:Neal Stephenson
“There is a strong current in contemporary culture advocating ' holistic ' views as some sort of cure-all... Reductionism implies attention to a lower level while holistic implies attention to higher level. These are intertwined in any satisfactory description: and each entails some loss relative to our cognitive preferences, as well as some gain... there is no whole system without an interconnection of its parts and there is no whole system without an environment.” WellsWholeCultureStrongLossLevelsViewsAttentionEnvironmentHigherGainsCurrentsContemporaryCuresDescriptionRelativePreferenceCognitiveHigher LevelHolisticAdvocatingIntertwinedInterconnectionReductionism Author:Francisco Varela
“the higher the development of women, the more they suffer from the 'patriotic' mandate to bear many children to replace the nation's losses. For they know that, from the point of view of their personal development as well as that of the race, fewer but better children are to be preferred.” KnowsWellsChildrenSufferingNationsLossViewsRaceDevelopmentBearsHigherPoint Of ViewPersonal DevelopmentPatrioticFewerMandates Author:Ellen Key
“It appears that there are enormous differences of opinion as to the probability of a failure with loss of vehicle and of human life. The estimates range from roughly 1 in 100 to 1 in 100,000. The higher figures come from the working engineers, and the very low figures from management.” HumansDifferencesLossOpinionFiguresHigherLowsManagementSafetyEnormousRangeHuman LifeAviationVehicleEngineersProbabilityDifferences Of Opinion Book:What Do You Care What Other People Think? Source: What Do You Care What Other People Think?
“The best moments involve a loss of control. It's a kind of rapture, and it can happen with words and phrases fairly often - completely surprising combinations that make a higher kind of sense, that come to you out of nowhere. But rarely for extended periods, for paragraphs and pages - I think poets must have more access to this state than novelists do.” ThinkingKindStatesMomentsHappensLossPoetHigherPeriodsPagesAccessCombinationNovelistsPhrasesSurprisingParagraphRaptureBest Moments Author:Don DeLillo
“While advocates of legalized gambling say it brings in revenues needed for education and other uses, it actually has led to higher taxes, loss of jobs, economic disruption of non-gambling businesses, increased crime and higher social-welfare costs” UseJobsSocialLossEconomicCrimeNeededHigherCostTaxesWelfareGamblingRevenueDisruptionSocial WelfareJob Loss Author:John Warren Kindt
“Requiring the payment of higher wages will lead to a loss of some jobs and a raising of prices which drives companies to search for automation to reduce costs. On the other hand, those receiving higher wages will spend more (the marginal propensity to consume is close to 1 for low income earners) and this will increase demand for additional goods and services. Henry Ford had the clearest vision of why companies can actually benefit by paying higher wages.” HandsJobsLossCompanyVisionHigherCostDemandBenefitsLowsIncreaseIncomeGoodsReceivingWagesPaymentPropensityGoods And ServicesLow IncomeAutomation Author:Philip Kotler
“When Whitney Houston died, I felt great sadness. My sadness, of course, was about our collective loss - when you listened to this nightingale sing, your body would drop into a chair, your head would tilt up, a small smile would creep across your face, and inside you knew that there was a higher power somewhere: gifted, beautiful, spiritual.” BodyBeautifulFacesSpiritualCoursesFeltLossSadnessHigherDiedYour BodyChairsCollectivesYour FaceGiftedCreepsHoustonHigher PowerNightingalesTiltWhitney Author:James Belushi
“Tariffs that save jobs in the steel industry mean higher steel prices, which in turn means fewer sales of American steel products around the world and losses of far more jobs than are saved.” WorldMeanJobsTurnsLossEconomyProductsIndustryHigherSavedAround The WorldFewerSteelTariffsSteel Industry Author:Thomas Sowell