Jodi Picoult Quotes

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

Great news for someone is always bad news for someone else

No man profiteth but by the loss of others.

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

Economics is about creating win-win situations. But in sports, someone loses.

Everything is give and take. The solutions are in the middle not in the extremity of the situation.

On the one hand, loss implies gain; on the other hand, gain implies loss.

For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. You receive from the world what you give to the world.

The Gods give with one hand and take with the other.

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.

Better never means better for everyone... It always means worse, for some.

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

Abundance is a dance with reciprocity - what we can give, what we can share, and what we receive in the process.

You cannot have a cake and eat it too. Either you eat it, or you have it.

If one desires to receive one must first give. This is called profound understanding.

If you get something for nothing, part of you may be pleased, but part of you moves your hand to give something back.

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Human interactions, stimulated as they are by disequilibrium, never achieve balance. In even the most favorable transaction, one party whether he realizes it or not must always come out the worse.

Friendship is seldom lasting but between equals, or where the superiority on one side is reduced by some equivalent advantage on the other.

What we give, we will receive, and what we withhold will be withheld from us.

Inequality of wealth and incomes is an essential feature of the market economy. It is the implement that makes the consumers supreme in giving them the power to force all those engaged in production to comply with their orders. It forces all those engaged in production to the utmost exertion in the service of the consumers. It makes competition work. He who best serves the consumers profits most and accumulates riches.

Whatever I have given, I have gained.

When much is taken, something is returned.

Whatever you compromise to gain, you will lose.

I think it's kind of human nature to always want to see these things as a competitive dynamic, that either technology companies have to win or the banks have to win and one of them is going to lose. It's not as black and white.