Dog-Eat-Dog Quotes

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

Weak dogs become bones for other, stronger dogs.

The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you.

Washington [DC] is a zero sum place.

There is no middle ground in Hollywood; you're a failure or you're a success. That mentality is wild.

You have to be a bastard to make it, and that's a fact.

In Washington, it's dog eat dog. In academia, it's exactly the opposite.

I have not survived 50 years in showbusiness by being Mr. Nice. If you are weak, this business eats you up.

Show business is dog eat dog. It's worse than dog eat dog. It's dog doesn't return dog's phone calls.

If any of my competitors were drowning, I'd stick a hose in their mouth and turn on the water. It is ridiculous to call this an industry. This is not. This is rat eat rat, dog eat dog. I'll kill 'em, and I'm going to kill 'em before they kill me. You're talking about the American way - of survival of the fittest.

My whole freshman year at Duke, it was drilled into me that nothing was given to you, and you have to earn it, and this is a dog-eat-dog world, and blah blah blah, and blah blah blah. And you buy into it, 100 percent. You end up loving it. That's the way it should be, right?

I think the hedge-fund industry has taken a reputational turn for the worse, this dog-eat-dog stuff. I'm not just talking about Herbalife or J. C. Penney, but in other situations where the media really focuses on who's long and who's short. I don't think it's a good thing for the industry.

Hollywood is not known as a culture of grace. Dog-eat-dog is more like it. People love you one day and hate you the next. Personal value is very much attached to box office revenues and the unpredictable and often cruel winds of fashion.

Since I've started to star in pictures I have always managed to retain my singularity of purpose when I got into the business, which was to be an artist, as an actor, more than anything else. But to get the certain kind of role you want, you have to be in a certain position in the business and it's dog-eat-dog and it gets very hairy and you can lose your point of view sometimes.

In the dog-eat-dog economy, the Doberman is boss.

Sales bring out the worst in people.

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.

You have to have that dog-eat-dog kind of mentality. I think me playing football all my life and having that chip on my shoulder, not really getting the opportunities that I wanted, really carried over to track and field. It allowed me to use all that energy and put it in the direction of being the best track athlete that I could be.

I'm challenging the assumption that you need to be a dog-eat-dog person to survive in a corporate environment.

It's a dog-eat-dog world and in a man's world, too. It's just a fight, every single week, this job.

If you are too nice, you will just get eaten alive. The football world is not always a nice place.

[The] zero-sum caricature [applies] much more accurately to socialism, which stifles the creation of new wealth and thus fosters a dog-eat-dog struggle over existing material resources.

My femininity is always something I've tried to preserve in this dog-eat-dog world.

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.

I was raised in the Depression, when there was a great sense of dog-eat-dog and people fighting over scraps.