Later when Henri Cartier-Bresson suggested he work for Magnum, he refused to buy the required Leica, sticking with his trusty Rollieflex that had so often survived being dropped in the Mekong river, thus forfeiting his chance to work for the agency.
The collapse of EMI Group, the world's fourth largest music major, into administration last year saw its managers, including chief executive Roger Faxon, forced to share the financial pain by forfeiting an estimated £41m in bonuses.
When a person elects to trade privacy for fame and expose their entire family on reality television, as both Mama June Shannon and Hockey Mom Palin chose to do, they are also forfeiting the right to seek privacy only when the circumstances are less than flattering.
The growth strategy also takes steps to allow patients to pay privately for advanced drugs without forfeiting public coverage of the rest of their treatment, as happens now; doctors fiercely oppose this, he says.Insiders say that LDP members pressed forcefully to make sure Mr Abe did not announce anything too radical ahead of July's crucial election for the upper house of parliament.
Companies that get into trouble providing what they have promised have an incentive to hide problems, as G4S did, because they fear forfeiting payment if they admit they are struggling.Still, few believe outsourcing will dwindle.
"We used to have a problem of over-optimism, but now we have the opposite problem of ultra-pessimism," says John Hawksworth of PWC, "and this matters because we're building quite a high tax burden or forfeiting spending opportunities".Mr Hawksworth says that the chancellor will be able to afford further tax cuts or spending increases in next year's budget.
Congressional Democrats cannot take a firm stance on the war without alienating a significant part of their constituency and without forfeiting some of the political contributions that keep the political machine in motion.The Republicans start with a considerable advantage on foreign policy.
Israel's current government, Egypt fears, will feel so strong that it will lose any need to negotiate peace.So President Hosni Mubarak rushed to defuse the situation, even forfeiting Egypt's commemoration of the 25th anniversary of its October 6th 1973 defeat of Israeli forces on the Suez canal to pursue his mediation.
These range from the mild (having your failure publicised on its website) to the severe (forfeiting serious sums of money to charity, not to stickK).
By treating them as enemies rather than compatriots, Mr Milosevic has come close to forfeiting his country's ancient claim to Kosovo.
That may allow it to shed the subsidies without forfeiting power.
