Stan Kroenke Quotes

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.

Great news for someone is always bad news for someone else

Any time you have change, it costs somebody. Somebody is a loser.

Zero-sum thinking is an obsession of mine, but mostly in economics.

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

The gain to the winner is always less than the loss to the loser.

You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you.

Most ball games are lost, not won.

War is grounded in the notion of triumph and defeat. It is zero-sum.

You win some, lose some, and wreck some.

We believe that economics does not necessarily have to be a zero-sum game; it can be a win-win proposition for everyone involved so long as they have the tools in which to succeed.

Field hockey is my strongest sport, and if I lose a game, I take a long, hot bath and moan about it.

No man profiteth but by the loss of others.

Washington believes in Zero-Sum politics.

Every man's happiness is built on the unhappi-ness of another.

Success is somebody else's failure.

There are always sides. There is always a winner and a loser. For every person who gets, there's someone who must give.

Life is a zero sum game.

Fame is also won at the expense of others. Even the well-deserved honors of the scientist or man of learning are unfair to many persons of equal achievements who get none. When one man gets a place in the sun, the others are put in a denser shade. From the point of view of the whole group there's no gain whatsoever, and perhaps a loss.

A company has only so much money and managerial time. Winning leaders invest where the payback is the highest. They cut their losses everywhere else.

Whatever you compromise to gain, you will lose.

Here's something else you might as well learn now: If you want something, if you take it for your own, you'll always be taking it from someone else. That's a rule too. And something must die so that others can live.

Time is your most important resource. You can do so much in ten minutes. Ten minutes; once gone is gone for good.

We are a much improved ball club: now we lose in extra innings!

[The] zero-sum caricature [applies] much more accurately to socialism, which stifles the creation of new wealth and thus fosters a dog-eat-dog struggle over existing material resources.