Losing quotes
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"If you've got the power to raise prices without losing business to a competitor, you've got a very good business. And if you have to have a prayer session before raising the price by a tenth of a cent, then you've got a terrible business. I've been in both, and I know the difference."
"There is a fine balance between honoring the past and losing yourself in it."
"All the trees are losing their leaves, and not one of them is worried."
"I can maintain my sense of the sacredness of existence only by understanding my own limitations and losing my self-importance."
"By gaining the people, the kingdom is gained; by losing the people, the kingdom is lost."
"If you're explaining, you're losing."
"You could do with losing a little bit of weight."
"Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others."
"The greatest cause of human financial struggle is the fear of losing money."
"The fact is that we don't want to be free. What is responsible for our problems is the fear of losing what we have and what we know."
"The man who fears losing has already lost."
"I learned how to win by losing and not liking it."
"People only tell lies when there is something they are terribly frightened of losing."
"Many things are lost for want of asking."
"Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time."
"When a politician says the debate is over, you can be sure of two things; the debate is raging; and he's losing it."
"People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas."
"There's only winning and losing, and in our society, as in all societies, there's the person that's doing the winning, or there's the person that's facilitating the winning."
"Gambling is part of the human condition. I love it. I have the best time gambling. I've been winning fortunes, and I've been losing them."
"I'm most afraid of losing my mind. You lose your identity, your sense of who you are, where you are."
