Adam Grant Quotes

Jealous leaders measure their success by the failure of others.

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

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

It's not enough that I should succeed - others should fail.

There are many examples in high schools which show something about the effects such competition might have.

Americans have a severe disease --- worse than AIDS. It's called the winner's complex.

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

I think competition turns people into what they normally wouldn't be.

[T]he schools, through reliance upon the spur of competition and the bestowing of special honors and prizes, only build up and strengthen the disposition that makes an individual when he leaves school employ his special talents and superior skill to outwit his fellow without respect for the welfare of others

In show business the saying seems too often true: it isn't enough to succeed; someone else must fail.

If there weren't luck involved, I would win every time.

Let the losers worry about losin.

The game ain't always fair and that's the thing though. You can play your heart out, everyone don't get a ring though.

Having been here before and lost to be here and win, I've got to tell you, winning is really a lot better than losing. Really a lot better.

If you ain't first, you're last!

I've learned what it feels like to lose, believe me. But I think, in the end, that is just going to make winning that much better.

I love playing football but I am like everyone else, I hate losing and love winning.

Those who succeed can't forgive a fellow for being a failure, and those who fail can't forgive him for being a success.

Competition in academia is so vicious because the stakes are so small.

There's only one list that's more illustrious than the list of directors who won the Palme d'Or. It's the list of directors who didn't.

Pride is the great stumbling block of Zion...Pride is ugly; it says if you succeed I am a failure...Pride is basically competitive in nature. When competition ends, pride ends.

Duke is in extremely competitive environment. In my high school, I think I got one B my whole four years. I was used to being the smartest kid in every class I was in, and then I went to Duke and suddenly I was the dumbest kid in every class. Everybody there is up to something.

You don't have to win it, just don't lose it.

You're not gonna win every outing. I don't mean game. You're not gonna beat everybody out for the top job. Sometimes you're gonna be the best, but you're not gonna get the gig because there are other factors, people making the decision might like somebody more than they like you. It's vicious. And you have to be totally, singularly focused on yourself. Not in a bad way.

All happy companies are different: each one earns a monopoly by solving a unique problem. All failed companies are the same: they failed to escape competition.