Top 100 Winners And Losers Quotes
#1. It is sort of a bit of a caricature of capitalism, that it's always this zero-sum game where you have winners and losers. Silicon Valley, the technology industry at its best, creates a situation where everybody can be a winner.
Peter Thiel
#2. Life is unfair and there are winners and losers, regardless of how much overprotective parents attempt to shield their offspring from reality.
Jen Lancaster
#3. I think God has blessed this country with enormous natural resources, and we should pursue all of the above. We should be developing oil, and gas, and coal, and nuclear, and wind, and solar, and ethanol, and biofuels. But, I don't believe that Washington should be picking winners and losers.
Ted Cruz
#4. The difference between winners and losers is that winners do things losers don't want to do.
Phillip C. McGraw
#5. So, there is enormous instability in the global economy with a shift of winners and losers.
David Korten
#6. We are on dangerous terrain when government picks winners and losers in the economy by subsidizing favored products and industries.
Charles Koch
#7. If you believe in winners and losers you're one of the losers.
Marty Rubin
#8. If stocks double but the dollar loses half its value, who beyond Wall Street are the winners and losers?
David Malpass
#9. You've got Washington picking winners and losers. And so, all of a sudden, decisions are being made on what helps politicians, not what helps the economy. Some will call it socialism. Some will call it a command and control economy. Whatever it is, it's antithetical to the American experience.
Jeb Hensarling
#10. As in any technological revolution, there will be winners and losers. On balance, everyone will come out ahead, although there will be particular companies that will not be able to cope with a new environment.
Ralph Merkle
#11. Winners and losers aren't born, they are the products of how they think
Lou Holtz
#12. Government Picking Winners and Losers = Corruption. When government tries to pick winners and losers, the inevitable consequence is corruption. Yes, corruption. If not in a legal sense, certainly in a moral sense
Gary Johnson
#13. Your innovation can create new winners and losers; or at the very least, make existing companies look fresh and innovative by partnering with you. Everyone wants to align with market makers.
Jay Samit
#14. We need an equal opportunity society, one in which government does not see its job as picking winners and losers. Where do you go if you want special favors? Government. Where do you go if you want a tax break? Government. Where do you go if you want a handout? Government. This must stop.
Bobby Jindal
#15. Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life has not.
Bill Gates
#16. Obsessed with success and wealth and despising failure and poverty, our society is systematically dividing the population into winners and losers, using institutions like the courts to speed the process.
Matt Taibbi
#17. Education is not a race, with winners and losers. It's not a commodity to be bought and sold.
Grace Llewellyn
#18. There will be hunters and hunted, winners and losers. What counts in global competition is the right strategy and success.
Heinrich Von Pierer
#19. Education should not be a competition resulting in winners and losers. Education should be a competition against ignorance, and all should be encouraged to win.
K.A. Brill
#20. Please choose the way of peace.. In the short term there may be winners and losers in this war that we all dread. But that never can, nor never will justify the suffering, pain and loss of life your weapons will cause.
Mother Teresa
#21. The federal government has been a proven failure in picking winners and losers in the energy sector.
Mike Pompeo
#22. Basketball is a game with winners and losers, but if you play this game with your heart, you're always a winner.
C.M.
#23. We cannot allow internet service providers to restrict the best access or to pick winners and losers in the online marketplace for services and ideas.
Barack Obama
#24. Our elected officials would do well to remember that the most prosperous countries are those that allow consumers - not governments - to direct the use of resources. Allowing the government to pick winners and losers hurts almost everyone, especially our poorest citizens.
Charles Koch
#25. Building a startup community is not a zero-sum game in which there are winners and losers: if everyone engages, they and the entire community can all be winners.
Brad Feld
#26. Literature is not a sack race. There aren't real winners and losers in the Republic of Letters.
Charles Baxter
#27. Hip-hop is an instant gratification, winners and losers circle, and often those who are losing give up after three or four, five years.
Questlove
#28. Both winners and losers shed tears; the former shed tears of joy, and the latter, tears of sorrow.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#29. In the technology sector failure is often a precondition to future successes, while prosperity can be the beginning of the end. If the rise and fall of BlackBerry teaches us anything it is that the race for innovation has no finish line, and that winners and losers can change places in an instant.
Jacquie McNish
#30. In this life, you have winners and losers. the more you win, the higher you go.
Daniel Nayeri
#31. In a game there are winners and losers. But a business deal is always advantageous for both parties. If both the buyer and the seller were not to consider the transaction as the most advantageous action they could choose under the prevailing conditions, they would not enter into the deal.
Ludwig Von Mises
#32. Our government needs to adopt a pro-market agenda that doesn't pick winners and losers, but it invites competition and it levels the playing field for everyone.
Sarah Palin
#33. We ought to be allowing the private sector to pursue every form of energy because the energy of the future, it's not going to come from the government picking winners and losers.
Ted Cruz
#34. People don't change. There are two kinds of people in the world: winners and losers. Black and white. I don't know where gray fits in, or if you can even live in that shade.
Julie Anne Peters
#35. We have to get government out of the job of picking winners and losers. That's what they've been doing the last year and a half, getting in the way of businesses that are trying to reinvest to get our economy back on its feet.
Kristi Noem
#36. Global competition is about winners and losers.
David Korten
#37. Politics isn't a reality show or a gong show. It's not show business for ugly people. It's the arena where we define our common life in a rough and ready contest that has winners and losers.
Michael Ignatieff
#38. I do think there will be winners and losers in the 21st century economy.
David Plotz
#39. We need to learn ... how war brutalises and degrades winners and losers alike and what happens to us when, having heedlessly waged war for no good reason, we are encouraged to inflate and demonise our enemies in order to justify that war's indefinite continuance.
Tony Judt
#40. A person either hates losing enough to change or he hates changing enough to lose.
Orrin Woodward
#41. It all depends on what you're willing to invest time and effort in and put your mind to. That's what separates winners from losers. Winners are the ones who want the most out of their opportunities.
Kevin Hart
#42. Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.
Denis Waitley
#43. Artists of all times are like the gamblers of Monte Carlo, and this blind lottery allows some to succeed and ruins others. In my opinion, neither the winners nor the losers are worth worrying about.
Marcel Duchamp
#44. As wretched as she was, she wanted Harry to be miserable, too. And yet, she was aware of an underlying sense of sadness. Theirs may have been the first war in which there were no winners, only losers.
Sharon Kay Penman
#45. Creating art (music, books, films, etc.) can be beautiful and liberating, but trying to sell art, well, that is the movie business. There are few winners, and lots and lots of losers.
Ronnie Apteker
#46. Time has a habit of changing hands the trophy
Valgame
#48. There are winners, there are losers and there are people who have not yet learned how to win.
Les Brown
#49. Never lose hope, be persistent and stubborn and never give up. There are many instances in history where apparent losers suddenly turn out to be winners unexpectedly, so you should never conclude all hope is lost.
Theodore Kaczynski
#50. Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they're making to win. Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that's the difference.
Lou Holtz
#51. The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do.
Denis Waitley
#52. Losers, like autodidacts, always know much more than winners. If you want to win, you need to know just one thing and not to waste your time on anything else: the pleasures of erudition are reserved for losers. The more a person knows, the more things have gone wrong.
Umberto Eco
#53. Adversity discourages losers; adversity inspires winners.
Debasish Mridha
#54. Cultivate your desire for success to be greater than the fear of failure; Failure is merely a pitstop between where you stand and success. Failure allows you to learn the fastest; Failure inspires winners and defeats losers.
Fran Tarkenton
#56. If we expect kids to be losers they will be losers; if we expect them to be winners they will be winners. They rise, or fall, to the level of the expectations of those around them, especially their parents and their teachers.
Jaime Escalante
#57. Guerrilla marketing requires you to comprehend every facet of marketing, experiment with many of them, winnow out the losers, double up on the winners, and then use the marketing tactics that prove themselves to you in the battleground of real life.
Jay Conrad Levinson
#58. and in that single moment she felt as though she had seen into his soul and the very heart of the the love he bore for her and their children
Catrin Collier
#59. Remember, it's the winners write the history books, and the losers get the leavings.
Joanne Harris
#60. Delays, disappointments and defeats cause quitters to give up in resignation; losers, to give in the frustration; winners, to come through with determination.
William Arthur Ward
#61. The Mahabharata might have been a great and heroic battle, but there are no winners. The losers, of course, lose.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#62. Football represents and embodies everything that's great about this country, because the United States of America is built on winners, not losers or people who didn't bother to play.
Woody Hayes
#63. Winners train, losers complain. Give me twelve players that want to win and they will find a way to win.
Red Auerbach
#64. Excuses are for losers, and winning is for winners, like you!
RuPaul
#65. First there are those who are winners, and know they are winners. Then there are the losers who know they are losers. Then there are those who are not winners, but don't know it. They're the ones for me. They never quit trying. They're the soul of our game.
Bear Bryant
#66. Don't be a patron of disbelief; nobody fights and wins battles in the hand gloves of doubts.
Israelmore Ayivor
#67. The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don't acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, instead.
Kurt Vonnegut
#68. This aesthetic quality, then, is what politics is all about. It's authenticity that separates winners from losers, good politics from bad, and he-man leader-types from consultant-directed puppet-boys.
Thomas Frank
#69. Today is the word for winners and tomorrow is the word for losers
Robert Kiyosaki
#70. Most important, understand that goals are for losers and systems are for winners.
Scott Adams
#71. Winners are losers who got up and gave it one more try.
Dennis DeYoung
#72. You're going through college, and you're going to be faced with a lot of things. You're going to face adversity, the main thing is don't quit. For many people it's easy to quit, but don't. That's what separates the winners from the losers, what separates the all-stars from the also-rans.
Mr. T
#73. I have seen flowers come in stony places
And kind things done by men with ugly faces,
And the gold cup won by the worst horse at the races,
So I trust, too.
John Masefield
#74. I would sum up the German character best by saying that they are the best of losers and the worst of winners.
Edmund Ironside
#75. Choose to be at peace with yourself and you will never have any battle to lose. Find yourself every reason and season to share your peace with others!
Israelmore Ayivor
#76. In this world, whenever there is light, there are also shadows. As long as the concept of winners exist, there must also be losers. The selfish desire of wanting to maintain peace causes wars and hatred is born to protect love.
Masashi Kishimoto
#77. Winners feel rewarded when price moves in their favor, and losers feel punished when it moves against them. Crowd members remain blissfully unaware that by focusing on price they create their own leader. Traders who feel mesmerized by prices create their own idols.
Anonymous
#78. Pressure squeezes effort out of winners and excuses out of losers.
Orrin Woodward
#79. Winning isn't as sweet if you don't see an enemy cry. But remember, losers wail loud no matter what.
Ymatruz
#80. The price of winning is dedication and the price of dedication is concentration. To get any of the two you have to accept to toil for both.
Auliq Ice
#81. Once you start moving [market] lower, then you trigger of all sorts of things. You trigger people who have to sell because they're over-levered. So they sell their winners and their losers. They're just trying to raise cash. So, what you then get is spreading malaise throughout the global markets.
Mohamed El-Erian
#82. When we were born, we were thrown off to land on earth. The successful kept calm and created their wings on their way down. The losers were busy complaining against the creator why he did not give wings to them knowing they had to fly.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#83. There is always room for losers in the football business. They are the mother's milk of gambling, and why not? Somebody has to do it, or there won't be any winners.
Hunter S. Thompson
#84. You spend more of the game preparing to win in the final seconds. And that is what separates winners from losers.
Pat Summitt
#85. The defeat of your enemy lies within the peace of your heart and the humbleness of your thoughts.
Auliq Ice
#86. There are neither winners nor losers; there are only stages that must be gone through. When the human heart understands this, it is free and able to accept difficult times without being deceived by moments of glory
Paulo Coelho
#87. Everyone tries to be an optimist. But being an optimist is a bit boring and not honest. Losers are more interesting than winners.
Xiaolu Guo
#88. Some people believe they are winners, others believe they are losers. And they are both right.
Henry Ford
#89. Have the courage of your own convictions and don't be swayed by friends who boast about their financial home runs. Last year's winners are often this year's losers.
Nancy Dunnan
#90. And from a military school which taught me that to fit into society, you can't just do anything you damn well please because it will suit you. And that it's much better to be with the winners than it is with the losers.
Sam Donaldson
#91. Active management is a zero-sum game before cost, and the winners have to win at the expense of the losers.
Eugene Fama
#92. It's a simple fact that winners fail a lot more often than losers. Failures are very necessary for one's growth and progress. When you quit before you fail, you preclude any sort of success in your life. Fail often. Fail gloriously. And then win.
Munmi Sarma
#93. Never bring a lot of money to where a poor man lives. He can only lose what little he has. On the other hand it is mathematically possible that he might win whatever you bring with you. What you must do, with money and the poor, is never let them get too close to one another.
Charles Bukowski
#94. Every trader has strengths and weakness. Some are good holders of winners, but may hold their losers a little too long. Others may cut their winners a little short, but are quick to take their losses. As long as you stick to your own style, you get the good and bad in your own approach.
Michael Marcus
#95. I don't kiss losers and I don't kiss winners, and I don't fight for honor 'cause we all are born sinners
Regina Spektor
#98. The culture war is between the winners and those who think they're losers who want to become winners. The losers think the only way they can become winners is by banding together all the losers and them empowering a leader of the losers to make things right for them.
Rush Limbaugh
#99. One thing that served me well with clients was that you back your winners and you back your losers.
Rick Santelli
#100. Failure inspires winners. And failure defeats losers. It is the biggest secret of winners. It's the secret that loser do not know. The greatest secret of winners is that failure inspires winning; thus, they're not afraid of losing.
Robert Kiyosaki
