"But in practice, if often comes down to not suffering a loss as big as the huge gain you made a while ago."

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"But in practice, if often comes down to not suffering a loss as big as the huge gain you made a while ago."

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"By use you possess gain; by disuse you decline and lose."

Edwin Louis Cole, American Author

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"We will build new ships to carry man forward into the universe, to gain a new foothold on the moon and to prepare for new journeys to the worlds beyond our own."

George W. Bush, American President

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"Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain."

Niccolo Machiavelli, Italian Writer

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"I had to gain weight until I looked like a seal so I could compete with the real whores who played the other roles. I was fat as a barrel."

Victoria Abril, Spanish Actress

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"Sometimes the best gain is to lose."

George Herbert, British Poet

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"Every few seconds it changes - up an eighth, down an eighth -it's like playing a slot machine. I lose $20 million, I gain $20 million."

Ted Turner, American Businessman

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"One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness."

Josh Billings, American Comedian

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"To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

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"Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another."

Milton Friedman, American Economist

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"The mandate you go with is intimidating and also is a source of respect that you gain, because you have come with this mandate from the United Nations."

Lakhdar Brahimi, Algerian Public Servant

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"Most people might just as well buy a share of the whole market, which pools all the information, than delude themselves into thinking they know something the market doesn't."

People

"What happened after publication of our paper was that, for the next 40 years, people said, all right, we now know the answer to the capital structure question under ideal conditions."

People

"Everyone recognizes that's a joke because obviously the number and shape of the pieces doesn't affect the size of the pizza. And similarly, the stocks, bonds, warrants, etc., issued don't affect the aggregate value of the firm."

Values

"I was born in Boston, Massachusetts on May 16, 1923, the only child of Joel and Sylvia Miller."

Boston

"My main interest, however, was in economics, not law."

Economy

"Junk bonds prove there's nothing magical in a Aaa bond rating."

Nothing

"As an economics undergraduate, I also worked on a part-time basis in Cambridge, Massachusetts, for a company that was advising customers about portfolio decisions, writing reports."

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"You only need to make one big score in finance to be a hero forever."

Finance

"My research interests since then have shifted strongly towards the economic and regulatory problems of the financial services industry, and especially of the securities and options exchanges."

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"Of course. I favor passive investing for most investors, because markets are amazingly successful devices for incorporating information into stock prices."

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