Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tacitus

Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.

Steve Harvey

Sometimes out of your biggest misery, comes your greatest gain.

Thomas Carlyle

Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.

Sigmund Freud

We are so constituted that we can gain intense pleasure only from the contrast, and only very little from the condition itself.

Robert Browning

And gain is gain, however small.

Kelly Rowland

I love food so much, all I have to do is look at it and I gain 5 pounds.

John J. Mack

Ethical is 'I'll wait and do what's right even in the hardest times and even if I have to give up gains to do it.'

We saw some profit-taking amid less volume and on the back of healthy gains in the past two weeks.

Robert Kiyosaki

Once a person gains experience and a good reputation, it takes less and less money to create bigger and bigger investments.

We've had some pretty good gains in a lot of sectors lately that need to be adjusted. The encouraging thing is we're not seeing a lot of volume, so there aren't a lot of sellers out there.

We've had pretty sizable gains in the last two days, so you're seeing a little rotating out of sectors and some profit taking. Last week we had a one-hit wonder. This week we're trying to see if we can do a little better.

The victory of success is half done when one gains the habit of work.

The speed of recent gains in telecoms was surprising,

Umberto Eco

The more elusive and ambiguous a symbol is, the more it gains significance and power.

Paul Tudor Jones

You can achieve great economic gains by solving social problems.

Paulo Coelho

Each time we embrace someone warmly, we gain an extra day of life.

Thomas Hutchinson

It cannot be good to tax the Americans... You will lose more than you gain.

Vincent Van Gogh

It is a pity that, as one gradually gains experience, one loses one's youth.

Walter Cronkite

We've always known you can gain circulation or viewers by cheapening the product, and now you're finding the bad driving out the good.

Walid Jumblatt

I condemn what happened in Madrid, but it is suspicious. If tomorrow there will be another bombing, in France for example, who will gain power? Of course not Jacques Chirac, but Le Pen.

Samuel Gompers

No lasting gain has ever come from compulsion.

Van Jones

I don't put myself above anyone, and I have as many shortcomings as any non-believer. I just choose to turn to a higher power to help me gain wisdom and, I hope, improve over time.

William Godwin

If admiration were not generally deemed the exclusive property of the rich, and contempt the constant lackey of poverty, the love of gain would cease to be an universal problem.

Washington Allston

The love of gain never made a painter; but it has marred many.

Stephenie Meyer

It’s just been my experience that some kinds of working relationships are better motivated by fear than by monetary gain.

Horace

The miser acquires, yet fears to use his gains.

Henry David Thoreau

You never gain something but that you lose something.

Horace

A person will gain everyone's approval if he mixes the pleasant with the useful.

Ferdinand Lassalle

From that moment on, the newspaper became a highly lucrative investment for those with a talent for making money or for publishers wanting to gain a fortune.

Francis Atterbury

It is the duty of every one to strive to gain and deserve a good reputation.

I'm just not sure it gains us anything,

Stocks have had a real tough time maintaining gains this whole week. When we start taking a look around, gains tend to evaporate. Today, investors are looking at tech leaders. Those stocks are where the weight is being carried.

The New York gains are nice, but a rebound of this scale is not enough to turn the bearish trend around.