Possession-Loss

Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure. (Thorstein Veblen)

The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to most people. (E B White)

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight. (Marcus Aurelius)

There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain. (Plautus)

To be have little is to possess. (Lao Tzu, Tao-te Ching)