Win-Lose Quotes

It is not enough that I succeed. Everyone else must fail.

All my life, everything has been a contest.

Most lawyers who win a case advise their clients, "We have won," and when justice has frowned upon their cause ... "You have lost.

Get it - get it better or get it worse. No middle ground of compromise.

It's not enough that I should succeed - others should fail.

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.

The result of civilization, at the Sandwich Islands and elsewhere, is found productive to the civilizers, destructive to the civilizees. It is said to be compensation--a very philosophical word; but it appears to be very much on the principle of the old game, "You lose, I win": good philosophy for the winner.

I thrive in competitive environments. I've never been in a monopoly.

In politics, you win and you lose. You come up in power, you go down; it's part of life.

Gain cannot be made without some other person's loss.

People with a scarcity mentality tend to see everything in terms of win-lose. There is only so much; and if someone else has it, that means there will be less for me. The more principle-centered we become, the more we develop an abundance mentality, the more we are genuinely happy for the successes, well-being, achievements, recognition, and good fortune of other people. We believe their success adds to...rather than detracts from...our lives.

Life is a zero sum game.

Challenge me. Treat me like a game of checkers and play me. That's all I'm asking, just play me. Treat me like Sega and play me.

There are games when you do well, and others that go differently.

Obviously during practice there's a competitive nature if you're on opposite teams.

There is no win-win or lose-lose in a situation. Everything is a medium.

One of the last things that my dad and I discussed, and it sticks with me today, is that he no longer believed in the concept of Good Guy/Bad Guy. He believed in the idea that one guy is trying to beat the other. However, he would say, 'You can be a Good Guy/Bad Guy, or you can just be a star.'

That is the way this game is -- you win, you lose, you celebrate and you suffer.

No man profiteth but by the loss of others.

I'm used to competition.

I think it's kind of human nature to always want to see these things as a competitive dynamic, that either technology companies have to win or the banks have to win and one of them is going to lose. It's not as black and white.

It's always a balance, and sometimes I'm on the good side of that scale, and sometimes I'm on the bad side.