Win-Lose Scenario Quotes

Competition is a sin.

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

By trying to advance the perfect conservative solution, nobody wins.

If we win, someone else loses. But if someone else loses, we lose. Which is a point we're not getting. The new spirituality will make this just painfully obvious.

It's not how you play the game, it's how you place the blame.

I think in Trump's view of the world, when the other person loses, he wins.

The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the seller not one.

In the business arena, the standard rules of morality don't apply. What we're really looking for is efficiency. It doesn't do anyone any good to be nice to the weak. In a certain sense, competition is inefficient.

The objective is to enlarge the scope of your advantage which can only happen at someone else's expense.

It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser.

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.

I kinda see everyone as competition.

The most dangerous negotiation is the one you don't know you're in.

There are many individuals, companies and even countries operating in what I call a 'me first' mentality, which is effectively a purely competitive approach to life, treating the planet as if it has infinite resources and pitting one country against another for supremacy.

Well there are those who think you can only succeed at someone else's expense.

Unfortunately, in collective bargaining one party or the other too often tries to gain an advantage - a bargain, like buying something in a store for less than it is worth.

Fair play doesn't pertain in bargaining. What matters there is leverage.

Realize that the game of life is the game of, to some extent, being taken advantage of by people who make a science of it. Whether they are in government or personal life or in business, they're everywhere.

Zero-sum thinking is an obsession of mine, but mostly in economics.

The nature of show business is people within the business feel that if someone else fails, they move up a notch.

Washington believes in Zero-Sum politics.

I feel like everyone has this competitive instinct.

You can practice against each other, but there's something about a game situation.