Losing Money Quotes - Page 2

• Microsoft loves losing money with online services, so this should stay free forever... unless they get a new CEO who isn't crazy about pouring billions into a hole.

  Marco Arment

  Crazy, Forever, Microsoft

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• It has now become a status symbol among the rich to say that you got ripped off by Bernie Madoff, because everybody is losing money in the market, everybody is, but it makes you special and unique if you lost money because of Madoff. These people don't think it makes 'em look stupid. It continues to elevate their status, they think.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Stupid, Unique, Thinking

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Bargain... anything a customer thinks a store is losing money on.

  Kin Hubbard

  Money, Thinking, Losing

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• Without market prices for capital goods, accounting is not possible. You don't know if you are making money or losing money, saving resources or wasting them, doing the right thing or not doing the right thing.

  Llewellyn Rockwell

  Saving, Losing, Making Money

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• My family survived losing money to Bernie Madoff incredibly well compared to others.

  Kevin Bacon

  Losing, My Family, Madoff

  "Kevin Bacon: this much I know". Interview with Jane Mulkerrins, www.theguardian.com. January 19, 2013.

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• The idea of a company that's earning money, not losing money, that's not, let's say 'industrially endangered,' to have just cutbacks so they can earn another $12 million or $20 million or $40 million in a year where no one's counting is really a horrible act when you think about it on every level. First of all, it's certainly not necessary. It's doing it at the worst time. It's throwing people out to a larger, what is inevitably a larger unemployment heap for frankly no good reason.

  Barry Diller

  Thinking, Ideas, Years

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• A lot of the philosophies of the businesses are just 'we're interested in getting customers now and if we're losing money with each customer now that's okay because we have this huge hoard of venture capital that we can subsidise the operation with and once we have the required number of tens of millions of customers and we drive our competitors out of business, then we can start to raise prices and become a proper business.'

  Kevin Kinsella

  Philosophy, Numbers, Venture

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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