Sanford I. Weill Quotes

A good balance of winning and losing is important. If you just win all the time, you won't get anything out of it; having some tough losses can be really important.

A winner must first know what losing's like.

I disagree with people who think you learn more from getting beat up than you do from winning.

When you lose, you're more motivated. When you win, you fail to see your mistakes and probably no one can tell you anything.

I never learned anything from a match that I won.

Winning isn't the end of the world

I have always felt that although someone may defeat me, and I strike out in a ball game, the pitcher on the particular day was the best player. But I know when I see him again, I'm going to be ready for his curve ball. Failure is a part of success.

When you fail by your own standards, it's a form of success.

Defeat has its lessons as well as victory.

No one wants to quit when he's losing and no one wants to quit when he's winning.

You can't win unless you learn how to lose.

You can learn little from victory. You can learn everything from defeat.

Unfortunately, it is human nature for us to only learn and grow from a place of emptiness. It's hard to learn when we are winning and on top of the world.

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

When you lose a couple of times, it makes you realize how difficult it is to win.

There's nothing wrong with being a loser, it just depends on how good you are at it.

You win a few, you lose a few.

You learn more from losing than winning. You learn how to keep going.

If anything, you know, I think losing makes me even more motivated.

Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.

If it was up to me, I wouldn't lose at all, but when it happens, that's when you have to show your real strength.

I wasn't thinking that I was going to go through my career undefeated. You expect to lose sometimes.

We win, lose, but learn in the defeat.

It's a sport. Sometimes you lose and sometimes you win.

Win or lose, I always learn something.