Zero-Sum Game, Zero-Sum Games Quotes

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

You are either with us or against us…

At least half of the popular fallacies about economics come from assuming that economic activity is a zero-sum game, in which what is gained by someone is lost by someone else. But transactions would not continue unless both sides gained, whether in international trade, employment, or renting an apartment.

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

All riches come from iniquity, and unless one has lost, another cannot gain.

Kufr and Islam are opposed to each other. The progress of one is possible only at the expense of the other and co-existences between these two contradictory faiths in unthinkable. The honor of Islam lies in insulting kufr and kafirs. One who respects kafirs, dishonors the Muslims (unbelievers)…. They should be kept at an arm's length, like dogs. ... If some worldly business cannot be performed without them, in that case only a minimum of contact should be established with them but without taking them into confidence…. They should constantly remain terrified and trembling. It is intended to hold them under contempt and to uphold the honor and might of Islam.

Most economic fallacies derive … from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another.

Whatever you compromise to gain, you will lose.

If you have technological progress, that will encourage more capitalist system. On the other hand, if you don't, if things are stalled, you end up with much more of a zero sum type thing, where there's no progress and basically everybody's gain is somebody else's loss.

In America, opportunity and equality are not a zero-sum game

International politics is no longer a zero-sum game but a multi-dimensional arena where cooperation and competition often occur simultaneously. Gone is the age of blood feuds. World leaders are expected to lead in turning threats into opportunities.

We cannot negotiate with those who say, "What's mine is mine, and what's yours is negotiable.

Global education is not a zero-sum game. The rise of universities in Asia will be a benefit to the entire world.

I don't think that everything is a zero-sum game in which, when the president of the United States says something, that means that he is pro-Palestinian and anti-Israeli, or vice versa.

The real "haves" are they who can acquire freedom, self-confidence, and even riches without depriving others of them.

Much of our national debate proceeds as if China and America were locked in a zero-sum game in which one's loss is precisely the other's gain.

There is no such thing as 'social gambling.' Either you are there to cut the other bloke's heart out and eat it -- or you're a sucker. If you don't like this choice -- don't gamble.

It's a winner-take-all world.

In a globalized world policies based on zero-sum games do not work.

The win-win situation is the basis for America's entire business world. Instead of wasting our time attempting to defeat each other, let's find a way that will make both of us gain and go home satisfied. In Israel, it doesn't work because the only meaning of victory is seeing your rival's body lying trampled on the floor.

No one can build his happiness at the expense of the misery of others

Economics is about creating win-win situations. But in sports, someone loses.

One problem with politics is that it is a zero sum game, i.e. politicians argue how to cut the pie smaller and smaller, by reshuffling pieces of the pie. I think this is destructive. Instead, we should be creating a bigger pie, i.e. funding the science that is the source of all our prosperity. Science is not a zero sum game.

There is no middle ground in Hollywood; you're a failure or you're a success. That mentality is wild.

People with a scarcity mentality think there is only so much in the world to go around. It's as if they see life as a pie. When another person gets a big piece, then they get less. Such people are always trying to get even, to pull others down to their level so they can get an equal or even bigger piece of the pie.