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“Using volatility as a measure of risk is nuts. Risk to us is 1) the risk of permanent loss of capital, or 2) the risk of inadequate return.”

Loss Risk Return Permanent Nuts Inadequate Volatility

Author:Charlie Munger

“Mankind never loses any good thing, physical, intellectual, or moral, till it finds a better, and then the loss is a gain. No steps backward is the rule of human history. What is gained by one man is invested in all men, and is a permanent investment for all time.”

Men Humans Loses Loss Moral Steps Progress Mankind Intellectual Gains Good Things Investment All Time Permanent One Man Human History

Book:The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Lessons from the world of matter and the world of man

Source: The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Lessons from the world of matter and the world of man

“the sudden violent dispossession accompanying a refugee flight is much more than the loss of a permanent home and a traditional occupation, or than the parting from close friends and familiar places. It is also the death of the person one has become in a particular context, and every refugee must be his or her own midwife at the painful process of rebirth.”

Persons Home Process Loss Particular Painful Violent Familiar Traditional Flight Permanent Occupation Refugee Rebirth Parting Close Friends Midwife Familiar Places

Author:Dervla Murphy

“Permanent weight loss doesn’t come with an on and off switch. It is not something you do for a little while and think it is going to change your body.”

Thinking Littles Body Loss Health Weight Your Body Permanent Weight Loss And Off

Book:I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down

Source: I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down

“War is an evil thing; but to submit to the dictation of other states is worse.... Freedom, if we hold fast to it, will ultimately restore our losses, but submission will mean permanent loss of all that we value.... To you who call yourselves men of peace, I say: You are not safe unless you have men of action on your side.”

Ifs Men Mean War States Action Values Evil Sides Loss Safe Permanent Submit Submission Your Side Hold Fast Evil Things Dictation

Author:Thucydides

“I am out of step with present conditions. When the game is no longer played your way, it is only human to say the new approach is all wrong, bound to lead to trouble, and so on. On one point, however, I am clear. I will not abandon a previous approach whose logic I understand ( although I find it difficult to apply ) even though it may mean foregoing large, and apparently easy, profits to embrace an approach which I don't fully understand, have not practiced successfully, and which possibly could lead to substantial permanent loss of capital.”

Way Humans May Mean Games Easy Difficult Loss Steps Clear Trouble Conditions Approach Logic Embrace Bounds Profit Permanent Abandon New Approach

Author:Warren Buffett

“We regard using [a stock's] volatility as a measure of risk is nuts. Risk to us is 1) the risk of permanent loss of capital, or 2) the risk of inadequate return. Some great businesses have very volatile returns - for example, See's [a candy company owned by Berkshire] usually loses money in two quarters of each year - and some terrible businesses can have steady results.”

Years Two Loses Loss Results Company Risk Example Return Terrible Permanent Nuts Quarters Steady Candy Inadequate Great Business Volatility

Author:Charlie Munger

“Permanent weight loss means making small, manageable changes and sticking with them for life.”

Mean Loss Weight Permanent Weight Loss Manageable

Author:Michael Adam Hamilton

“I would rather sustain the penalties resulting from over-conservatism than face the consequences of error, perhaps with permanent capital loss, resulting from the adoption of "New Era" philosophy where trees really do grow to the sky.”

Philosophy Faces Grows Loss Tree Sky Consequence Errors Eras Permanent Adoption Penalties Conservatism New Era

Author:Warren Buffett

“There are disappointments which wring us, and there are those which inflict a wound whose mark we bear to our graves. Such are so keen that no future gratification of the same desire can ever obliterate them: they become registered as a permanent loss of happiness.”

Desire Loss Bears Mark Disappointment Wounds Graves Permanent Gratification

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Thomas Hardy (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Thomas Hardy (Illustrated)

“It is curious how sometimes the memory of death lives on for so much longer than the memory of the life that it purloined. Over the years, as the memory of Sophie Mol ... slowly faded, the Loss of Sophie Mol grew robust and alive. It was always there. Like a fruit in season. Every season. As permanent as a government job.”

Years Sometimes Government Jobs Memories Loss Alive Grew Seasons Fruit Curious Permanent Life Death Sophie Faded Robust Government Jobs

Book:The God of Small Things

Source: The God of Small Things

“Love with someone else, an actual person, was another matter. People got hurt doing that. People cried and wrapped their arms around themselves and rocked with loss. Loving words got turned to fierce, sharp, whip-cracks of anger that lefft permanent marks. At the least, it disappointed you. At most, it damaged you.”

People Persons Matter Hurt Loss Arms Mark Permanent Cracks Disappointed Fierce Cried Whips Got Hurt Loving Words

Book:Love Is All You Need: Wild Roses; The Nature of Jade

Source: Love Is All You Need: Wild Roses; The Nature of Jade