Leonard Garment Quotes

If you're not first, you're last.

I see life and the world simply as an arena for competition. That's just what people do, and there are always going to be winners and losers.

I go out there to win. People don't care if you die in this business. The only way I get back is with success.

In business everyone is out to grab, to fight, to win. Either you are the under or the over dog. It is up to you to be on top.

In war there is no prize for runner-up.

They must have a feeling of do or die. It is such an overcrowded profession.

Win it, or it's start all over around here.

The pressures are intense, because the rewards for success and the penalty for failure are more and more.

The nature of show business is people within the business feel that if someone else fails, they move up a notch.

If you lose, you can't lead. If you don't lead, you're irrelevant. Winning is what it's all about in politics.

Washington [DC] is a zero sum place.

Life is a competitive endeavor.

I'd much rather have that pressure than be at the end of the field and no one expecting you to win. That's the kind of pressure that you've got to enjoy and love.

At all big clubs, there is pressure. They all want to win and expect to win.

For some people, success is a zero sum game. They think that if they push other people out of the way, fewer people can compete with them. That's one way of seeing the world. It's dog eat dog. It's, sadly, always going to be there.

I had no direct experience of a relegation scrap, but with Wales, I never had the luxury of being allowed to lose games. I was under pressure to win even the friendlies.

The music industry is an unforgiving place, and it shall unceremoniously show you the door if you can't perform to high standards.

There's no second-place winners in this league.

It's sink or swim for me in 2020.

My father just instilled in me that either you're going to be No. 1 or nothing at all.

I won't say we have to win. I won't put that pressure. But we can't lose.

Winning is only important in war and surgery.

Businesspeople are like sharks, not just because we're gray and slightly oily, or because our teeth trail the innards of those we have eviscerated, but because we must move forward or die.

I just hate losing and that gives you an extra determination to work harder.

If you don't win, you're going to be fired. If you do win, you've only put off the day you're going to be fired.