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.
Eating ice cream and not exercising is great. The downside is your health isn't so good.
I'm a songwriter first. . . In my career I have never felt that my being a woman was an obstacle or an advantage. I guess I've been oblivious. . . Sensitive, humbug. Everybody thinks I'm sensitive. . . There is a downside to having one of the biggest-selling albums ever.
Golf has an ambivalent relationship with the environment. On one hand, it's a great preserver of open spaces. Golf doesn't pave the world - it helps to green the world. But the downside is, it uses a lot of fertilizer, pesticides and water. And this is in a world where we know that synthetic fertilizers and pesticides are toxic, and water is more and more scarce. Golf could do a lot more.
I'm attracted to working with comedians because they don't have that stars' idea of what a hero should be. The downside is they're always addressing the camera too much.
The internet has huge advantages but its downside is the easy access to resources.
I always tell other people to protect against the downside, and not risk roughing on new ventures, but I never stuck to that rule myself.
The record of what you do is forever recoverable because of Google. The lofty upside and scary downside makes reciprocity more important than ever. This is all good because it makes people think more before they do something that reduces their trustworthiness.
Acting is a win-win situation. There is no risk involved. That's why I get tired of hearing actors who try to make out that there's a downside to it. Fame is an odd thing. It bugs you a little bit, but it's really not bad.
For the last year and a half, I went from being a crazy workout girl to sort of saying, "My body wants a little bit a of break. " So I kind of stay with more simple stuff and taking walks and not being neurotic about working out and eating right. I started to enjoy life a little bit more. The only downside to that is there's that couple extra pounds and about 4,000 pregnancy rumors, but you know, other than that, it feels great.
Everyone has a past, and the downside to my life is that the past gets dragged up.
Where I grew up - we started out in Oklahoma and then moved to Missouri - it was considered hubris to talk about yourself. And the downside of that was that ideas rarely got exchanged, or true feelings.
There's no downside to traveling the world and making money. I'm doing something I love. A lot of people have sucky jobs, but I have a good one, and I'm not trying to lose it any time soon.
The downside of being a writer is you get plenty of time to overthink your life.
But everything you do in life has a downside.
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.
An entrepreneur is somebody who is taking bold risks, is often doing things that have never been done before, trying to do things better. And an adventurer is challenging themselves, often doing things that have never been done before, seeing what they're capable of. In both cases, you've got to protect against the downside.
I can't think of a single downside to motherhood now.
Cornwall is one of the most beautiful places, with great people - there's not a great downside to it.
The downside is, if somebody doesn't like it, then it's like "oh my god, ok its really your fault. "
