Upside Downside Quotes

#1. It's a bit startling to achieve global recognition before the age of 30 on account of your sister, your brother-in-law and your bottom. One day I might be able to make sense of this. In the meantime I think it's fair to say that it has its upside and its downside.

Pippa Middleton

#2. Now, when anything 'bad' happens, I remember that everything that ever happens to me has within it the seeds of something better. I look for the upside rather than the downside. I ask myself, 'Where's the greater benefit in this event?'

Jack Canfield

#3. As I have found out, recognition has its upside, its downside and - you may say - its backside.

Pippa Middleton

#4. Most transactions have an upside and a downside, but when something is FREE! we forget the downside. FREE! gives us such an emotional charge that we perceive what is being offered as immensely more valuable than it really is. Why? I think it's because humans are intrinsically afraid of loss.

Dan Ariely

#5. Private equity has absolutely no reason to exist. The private equity holder has all the upside and the banks all the downside.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#6. Going with it was Tenley's superpower. Only child of a single dad, she'd learned to roll with almost any situation. The upside was very little ruffled her. The downside was very little ruffled her.

Rachel Hauck

#7. The upside of web-based journalism is that everybody gets a chance. The downside is that everybody gets a chance.

Aaron Sorkin

#8. Seneca's version of that Stoicism is antifragility from fate. No downside from Lady Fortuna, plenty of upside.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#9. Becoming a mom forced me to re-prioritize and make room for the things that are most important, while recognizing that there are things I can let go of, and the world won't crumble around me.

Shakira

#10. I'm not a city kind of guy. I'm happiest when I'm tromping through the woods. That's why I don't live in Los Angeles. Being physically away from Hollywood probably loses me a few jobs, but the best ones seek me out.

Aidan Quinn

#11. The downside of aging is a slower metabolism and achy joints.The upside is a knowledge of self that prevents one from behaving like a baboon.

Dov Davidoff

#12. Now I tell you the downside of this is you feel awful, but the upside is you feel terrific.

Peter Cook

#13. Seneca and stoicism as a back door to explain why everything antifragile has to have more upside than downside

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#14. Hedge funds have made massive leveraged credit bets, knowing that their upside is billions in fees and their downside is millions in fees.

Janet M. Tavakoli

#15. Upside of being an attractive woman; if you're remotely intelligent, people will treat you like you're brilliant. Downside: same thing.

Dov Davidoff

#16. A man with deep far-sightedness will survey both the beginning and the end of a situation and continually consider its every facet as important.

Takeda Shingen

#17. You know, we always tried to rationalize by saying you take the good, you take the upside, you got to deal with the downside, you've to take the downside.

Julius Erving

#18. But the upside of painful knowledge is so much greater than the downside of blissful ignorance.

Sheryl Sandberg

#19. Honestly, the essence of publishing hasn't changed. Since the days of the cave man carving stuff on the cave walls, people have wanted stories, and storytellers have wanted an audience. That is still the case. The changes are really a matter of format.

Susan Wiggs

#20. The importance of solitude is to help you to differentiate your own thoughts from those you have studied, read, heard, or unintentionally absorbed.

Tonya Sheridan

#21. Manage the downside; the upside will take care of itself

Donald Trump

#22. That is, many times we're not risking our own money, we're risking somebody else's money, or maybe that someone is going to back stop or downside, but we still get the upside.

Robert F. Engle

#23. In 2056, I think you'll be able to buy T-shirts on which are printed equations describing the unified laws of our universe.

Max Tegmark

#24. Shareholders share in the downside and not necessarily in the upside; that's the whole story.

John Gutfreund

#25. The big upside to being captain is it's a huge honour, but the downside is that there is definitely extra pressure.

Brian O'Driscoll

#26. The downside was that hospital staff took the first big blasts of secondary infection; the upside was that those blasts generally weren't emitted by people still feeling healthy enough to ride a bus or a subway to work. This was an enormously consequential factor in the SARS episode -

David Quammen

#27. Targeting investment returns leads investors to focus on potential upside rather on downside risk ... rather than targeting a desired rate of return, even an eminently reasonable one, investors should target risk.

Seth Klarman

#28. If you're expecting an upside in everything you do you might get extremely disappointed unless you also think about the consequences of a downside first.

Lou Silluzio

#29. I have to experiment with methods and I'm trying to find an authentic way of making an equivalent of the living, breathing person within the limits of a single picture.

Peter Wright

#30. Around 2008 and again in 2013 NATO officially offered the Ukraine the opportunity to join NATO. That's something no Russian government is ever going to accept. It's right at the geopolitical heartland of Russia.

Noam Chomsky

#31. Feelings naturally arise as passing states of awareness and are not part of us - rather, they give feedback and then expire.

Deborah Sandella

#32. That is why, with optimism instead of fear, all those who want to see Puerto Rico's status resolved should seek the truth about each option, including the upside and the downside of each.

Dick Thornburgh

#33. Are you a polititcian or does lyin' just run in your family?

Mary Stuart Masterson

#34. And we can almost always detect antifragility (and fragility) using a simple test of asymmetry: anything that has more upside than downside from random events (or certain shocks) is antifragile; the reverse is fragile.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#35. The upside of fall was the tourists had gone home. The downside was the county stopped spraying for mosquitos and no-see-ums, so the little fuckers got to gorge themselves in a type of 'eat local' frenzy.

Natasha Boyd