Rosabeth Moss Kanter Quotes

Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.

I grew up playing sports. There is a clear line between success and failure.

I definitely see a correlation between how many things a company gets right and how fast a company grows.

Unfortunately in sport it's either good or bad. You've got to take the highs and the lows.

We are trying to build large, lasting businesses.

I want to control everything that goes into winning or losing.

People say, 'Is broadcasting the same as coaching?' I say, 'Hell, no.' Coaching, you win and lose. Broadcasting, you don't win and lose. Coaching was a lot bigger than broadcasting.

I wasn't sure I'd ever win again. Every time I got close, somebody seemed to play a little better.

You know the old saying: you win some, you lose some... and then there's that little-known third category.

I enjoy watching competitive people. You watch 'em come and you watch 'em go, and how they try to be the best. How they handle when they're not. How they handle when they are. How they get along together on the court.

It's nice to be in first place. But just because you're not on a winner doesn't mean you're a loser.

When a sports movie really works, it gets you on all levels, because the stakes are high. It's black and white. It's win or lose.

A team sport is not very good for me, because I can't take losing.

Sports teaches you character, it teaches you to play by the rules, it teaches you to know what it feels like to win and lose-it teaches you about life.

People in retail banks are not smart. They have a business model that's quite difficult to not make money out of - but still they somehow manage it.

The strength in our third-quarter financial results is cause for excitement. I'm particularly pleased that we continue to demonstrate impressive growth at the same time we are engaged in important merger discussions.

I love to compete. To me, business is the ultimate sport. It's always on. There is always someone trying to beat me.

Business 2.0 was hugely profitable last year, and will be profitable this year.

I learned this about coaching: You don't have to explain victory and you can't explain defeat.

Businesswise, everything's been good.

If you're not a competitor, you've just got to go home.

Losing is not fun. It's terrible to lose. But in order to have fun winning, you have to go thouigh some pain of losing.

Winning, I believe, is a culture just as much as losing is.

I come back to the same thing: We've got the greatest pipeline in the company's history in the next 12 months, and we've had the most amazing financial results possible over the last five years, and we're predicting being back at double-digit revenue growth in fiscal year '06.

I want to get better. Every time you lose, you learn from it, and after every win, you look to building on the tempo.