Best 748 quotes in «gains quotes» category

I have worked with investors for 60 years and I have yet to see anyone - not even when capital gains rates were 39.9 percent in 1976-77 - shy away from a sensible investment because of the tax rate on the potential gain.

I have watched lives change. I have seen women gain confidence.

I heard someone say he [Carl Sandburg] was the kind of writer who had everything to gain and nothing to lose by being translated into another language.

I have thought about dropping an atomic bomb on Sydney but I wouldn't gain anything from it.

I hope there's a life after life - and maybe I can even come back again and get on another train, and ride and gain some more wisdom.

I know the horrors of war: no gains can compensate for the losses it brings.

I learn more with each film, and I gain confidence in my style of working. But at the same time, each one is a new monster.

I have nothing to lose, but something to gain.

Ill-gotten gains work evil.

Ill gotten gains will be ill spent.

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

I love to tell how I'm suffering because one percent we're paying 25 percent of the total. We're not paying 25 percent of the total taxes on individuals. We're paying maybe 25 percent of the income tax, but the payroll tax is over a third of the receipts of the federal government. And they don't take that from me on capital gains. They don't take that from me on dividends. They take from the woman who comes in and takes the wastebaskets out.

I'm big on feel, and I think it can help a relief pitcher gain feel before he goes into the game.

I'm dead, not impotent. Nasty rumors like that must be squashed before they gain momentum. Feel free to emphasize how very functional I am.

I'm always like 'I'm too skinny, I can't gain weight, even when I try.' I'd like to try to not let that get to me.

I'm still a hacker. I get paid for it now. I never received any monetary gain from the hacking I did before. The main difference in what I do now compared to what I did then is that I now do it with authorization.

I must not refrain from saying that India can gain more by waiving the right of punishment.

In all our losses, all our gains, In all our pleasures, all our pains, The life of life is: Love remains. In every change from good to ill,- If love continues still, Let happen then what will.

In a philosophical dispute, he gains most who is defeated, since he learns most.

In contrast to the speculators preoccupation with rapid gain, value investors demonstrate their risk aversion by striving to avoid loss.

Income earned by the sweat of your brow should be taxed at the lowest rates, not the highest. Capital gains should be taxed at a higher rate.

Increasingly prices are set by sellers to raise their prices without a loss of sales sufficient to wipe out the gain.

In dialogue, individuals gain insights that simply could not be achieved individually.

Index funds do not trade from security to security and, thus, they tend to avoid capital gains taxes.

Information is power, and the gain you get from empowering your associates more than offsets the risk of informing your competitor.

Information is not knowledge. The only source of knowledge is experience. You need experience to gain wisdom.

In ideal form of social control is an atomised collection of individuals focused on their own narrow concern, lacking the kinds of organisations in which they can gain information, develop and articulate their thoughts, and act constructively to achieve common ends.

In Japanese society, the competitiveness is within a traditional respecting framework. The Japanese will not compete if that competition involves violence or if it is a zero sum gain - if you win, someone has to lose.

In life it is more necessary to lose than to gain. A seed will only germinate if it dies.

In matters pertaining to the care of life there has been no marked gain over Greek and Roman antiquity.

I live before the audience of One-before others I have nothing to gain, nothing to lose, nothing to prove.

In painting, you have to destroy in order to gain... you have got to sacrifice something you are quite pleased with in order to get something better. Of course, it's a risk.

Intelligence in chains loses in lucidity what it gains in intensity.

In real estate you can avoid ever having to pay a capital gains tax, decade after decade, century after century. When you sell a property and make a capital gain, you simply turn around and buy a new property. The gain is not taxed. It's called "preserving your capital investment" - which goes up and up in value with each transaction.

Insignificant, is the loss of relatives, wealth and fame; The loss of wisdom is the greatest loss. Insignificant, is the increase of relatives, wealth and fame; The increase of wisdom is the highest gain. Therefore, you should train yourselves thus: "We will grow in the increase of wisdom" Thus you should train yourselves.

In the calculus of good deeds you have the most to gain.

In the gain or loss of one race all the rest have equal claim.

In the midst of conflict, there is absolutely nothing that produces gains as dramatically as listening.

In this metropolis a number of lurking leeches infamously gain subsistence by practicing on the credulity of women.

In this silent, serene wilderness the weary can gain a heart-bath in perfect peace.

I own over ninety-five different hats and, over the years, have lost or given away 120 hats. You gain to lose you lose to gain.

Islam is under obligation to gain power over all nations.

I realized that there was something internal that I could gain from pursuing this career as an actor. However, once I got into the business I just really abhorred what this career can drum up inside of a person.

I still feel there are much smarter self-promoters out there than me. I am very methodical about my messaging, and I know how to gain attention very quickly.

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

Is it not gain to have diminished the faith that it was the duty of the wretched and the miserable to be content with the lot in life which providence had awarded them?

I'm just really tiny. People hate me, because I just sit. I'm eating, I'm eating, I'm eating and then I just... sit. And I don't gain a thing.

I tend to be slim and you know, I actually can lose weight quicker than I can gain it.

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

It is a proof of our natural bias to evil, that gain is slower and harder than loss in all things good; but in all things bad getting is quicker and easier than getting rid of.