Bad News Quotes - Page 9

• Don't sell on bad news.

  Walter Schloss

  News, Investing, Sells

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• In truth, it's usually failure, disappointment, and frustration that motivate people to reexamine that which they've taken for granted. It's rare to find big change without significant bad news. ... In that sense, the pain of failure creates the largest opportunities for progress.

  Judith M Bardwick

  Change, Pain, Disappointment

  Judith M. Bardwick (1995). “Danger in the Comfort Zone: From Boardroom to Mailroom--how to Break the Entitlement Habit That's Killing American Business”, p.229, AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn

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• If you have to release bad news to the public, it would help if you are not ugly.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, News

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• Kids put life into perspective. I never have a bad day. Life happens and you get bad news sometime, or things don't go your way at work - for me that might mean I lose a game or not play well - but that doesn't affect my mood from day to day. I love going home and seeing the smiles on my daughters' faces being happy to see me, and that makes everything all right.

  Stephen Curry

  Daughter, Home, Mean

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• The good news is that economists are intelligent, engaging and often charming folks. The bad news is their work is often of little use to investors.

  Barry Ritholtz

  Intelligent, News, Use

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• Liberty lives in protest and democracy prospers under conditions of change. When we travel about the world and come to a country whose newspapers are filled with bad news we feel that liberty lives in that land. When we come to a country whose newspapers are filled with good news, we feel differently.

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan

  Country, Land, Democracy

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• The work of democratic government is routinely concerned with matters defined as troubles. In "The Presidency and the Press" I make the point, familiar to anyone who has flown about the world much, that the best quick test of the political nature of a regime is to read the local papers on arrival. If they are filled with bad news, you have landed in a libertarian society of some sort. If, on the other hand, the press is filled with good news, it is a fair bet that the jails will be filled with good men.

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan

  Men, Hands, Jail

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• The willingness to hear hard truth is vital not only for CEOs of big corporations but also for anyone who loves the truth. Sometimes the truth sounds like bad news, but it is just what we need.

  Bill Gates

  Sound, Needs, News

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• The first quality of the commander-in-chief is a cool head to receive a correct impression of things. He should not allow himself to be confused by either good or bad news.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Confused, Quality, News

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• There is no amount of bad news that the markets cannot see past.

  Seth Klarman

  Past, News, Amount

  "The 20 Forgotten Lessons Of 2008" by Christopher Pavese, www.businessinsider.com. April 28, 2010.

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• So, good news/bad news: good news that I'm progressing; bad news that life is short and art is long.

  George Saunders

  Art, Life Is Short, Long

  Interview with Andy Ward, www.slate.com. January 7, 2013.

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• There are no secrets on an successful software project. Both good and bad news must be able to move up and down the ptoject hierarchy without restriction.

  Steve McConnell

  Moving, Successful, Secret

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• And when that bad news washes over you and that pain sponges in, I just hope you feel like you've always got two choices.  One, you can swirl and twirl and gloom and doom forever.  Or two, you can grieve, and then face the future with newly sober eyes.

  Neil Pasricha

  Pain, Eye, Grieving

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• People who travel in China tell me that the mood there is still very upbeat, because their media is different from our media. Chinese media emphasize how well things are going and suppress the bad news and publish the good news.

  Freeman Dyson

  Media, People, Chinese

  "Legendary physicist Freeman Dyson talks about math, nuclear rockets, and astounding things about the universe". Interview with Elena Holodny, www.businessinsider.com. September 9, 2016.

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• We cannot truly plan, because we do not understand the future-but this is not necessarily a bad news. We could plan while bearing in mind such limitations. It just takes guts.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Future, Mind, News

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Fragility"”, p.157, Random House

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• I think we're doing pretty well. It's clear the media, of course, always gives you the bad news.

  Freeman Dyson

  Thinking, Media, Giving

  "Legendary physicist Freeman Dyson talks about math, nuclear rockets, and astounding things about the universe". Interview with Elena Holodny, www.businessinsider.com. September 9, 2016.

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• Winning the election is a good-news, bad-news kind of thing. Okay, now you're the mayor. The bad news is, now you're the mayor.

  Clint Eastwood

  Winning, News, Election

  "Clint Eastwood: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 15, 2008.

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• The Universe is a big ship and its captain is the Laws of Physics! The bad news is that there seems to be no safe harbour to dock and no lifeboats if we sink!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Law, News, Safe

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• You'll always get the good news; it's how fast you get the bad news that counts.

  Harvey Mackay

  News, Good News

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• So, I am a b*stard, and the English are b*stards. But the really bad news is that you are too. My vision of Europe would be Europe of b*stards for whom the question of legitimacy was a site of endless struggle and contestation.

  Simon Critchley

  Struggle, Europe, Vision

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• I think when tragic things happen it is on surface. It is like the ocean. One the surface a waves and sometimes the wave is very serious and strong. But it comes and goes, comes and goes, and underneath, the ocean always remains calm. Tibetans have a saying: "If bad news comes to you listen here" (points to the right ear) "and let it our here" (points to the left ear).

  Dalai Lama

  Strong, Ocean, Thinking

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• The good news is we had this idea of cloud computing. The bad news is we were 10 years too early.

  Marc Andreessen

  Clouds, Years, Ideas

  "'Grandpa' Andreessen Says We Live in Dang Exciting Times". "All Things D" live blog, allthingsd.com. June 1, 2011.

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• If partisanship makes us abandon intellectual honesty, if we oppose what our opponents say or do simply because they are the ones saying or doing it, we become mere political short-sellers, hoping for bad news because it's good for our ideological investment.

  Kurt Andersen

  Honesty, Political, Intellectual

  "When Good News Feels Bad". archive.frontpagemag.com. February 17, 2005.

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• Congratulations to President Obama on being reelected president of the United States. Turns out it is not all bad news for the Republicans. It seems that depression is covered by Obamacare.

  Jay Leno

  Congratulations, Obamacare, President

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• A man goes to the doctor for a check, and the doctor exams him and says I've got bad news, you've got cancer and alzheimers. The man goes Thank god I don't have cancer.

  Gilbert Gottfried

  Cancer, Men, Doctors

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