Active management is a zero-sum game before cost, and the winners have to win at the expense of the losers. — Eugene Fama
War is the only game in which both sides lose. — Walter Scott
Wealth creation is an evolutionarily recent positive-sum game. Status is an old zero-sum game. Those attacking wealth creation are often just seeking status. — Naval Ravikant
Victory and defeat are each of the same price. — Thomas Jefferson
Rich people play the money game to win. Poor people play the money game to not lose. — T. Harv Eker
Instead of playing the game "Making Life Wonderful", we often play the game called "Who's Right". Do you know that game? It's a game where everybody loses. — Marshall B. Rosenberg
What sustains this 'win-lose' mindset is a sense of scarcity, the fear that there is just not enough to go around, so we need to look out for ourselves even at the expense of others. — William Ury
Whereas success is zero-sum in a group of takers, in groups of givers, it may be true that the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. — Adam Grant
The person that is buying a share of stock is convinced he knows something that the other person who's selling it to him does not know. There's no zero sum game in Wall Street. — Bernard Madoff
Wall Street is one big turf war. By benefiting one person you are disadvantaging another person. — Bernard Madoff
Zeroth law: You must play the game
First law: You can't win
Second law: You can't break even
Third law: You can't quit the game. — C.P. Snow
Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box. — Italian Proverbs
Short Zero Sum Game Quotes
To avoid losing a piece, many a person has lost the game — Savielly Tartakower
It is impossible to win a contest with a helpless opponent since if you win you have won nothing. — Jay Haley
You have to lose something to get another thing. — Thai Proverbs
After the game the King and pawn go into the same box. — Italian Proverbs
You play, you win, you play, you lose. You play. — Jeanette Winter
Where two people fight against each other, the third one wins. — Polish Proverbs
When you finish the game, the king and pawn end up in the same box. — Italian Proverbs
Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors. — Frank Gifford
Life is a game. Money is how we keep score. — Ted Turner
Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing for something. — Wilson Mizner
Zero Sum Game Image Quotes
At the end of the game the kind and the pawn go back in the same box.
Zero-sum Quotes
My guiding principle is that prosperity can be shared. We can create wealth together. The global economy is not a zero-sum game. — Julia Gillard
Programming is not a zero-sum game. Teaching something to a fellow programmer doesn't take it away from you. I'm happy to share what I can, because I'm in it for the love of programming. — John Carmack
I don't look at business as a zero-sum game. I don't. I've never seen it play out that way in our industry, and I think you innovate and you add value, deliver value back to customers, and you get value back from the world. — Marc Benioff
Never allow the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.
We believe that economics does not necessarily have to be a zero-sum game; it can be a win-win proposition for everyone involved so long as they have the tools in which to succeed. — Ron Kind
There’s huge amounts of good that can be done by a government that works constructively versus a zero-sum vision of government. — Sam Bankman-Fried
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
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
We have the data to prove to men that gender equality is not a zero-sum game, but a win-win. — Michael Kimmel
The single greatest lesson the garden teaches is that our relationship to the planet need not be zero-sum, and that as long as the sun still shines and people still can plan and plant, think and do, we can, if we bother to try, find ways to provide for ourselves without diminishing the world. — Michael Pollan
Death is a zero sum game for which there is no cure. — S. Jay Olshansky
In the great non zero sum games of history, if you're part of the problem, then you'll likely be a victim of the solution. — Robert Wright
We still find, especially in parts of academe, the damaging notion that everything is a struggle for power, or being empowered, or hegemony, or oppression: and that all competition is a zero-sum game. This is not more than repetition of Lenin's destructive doctrine. Intellectually, it is reductionism; politically, it is fanaticism. — Robert Conquest
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
In a zero-sum game, the problem is entirely one of distribution, not at all one of production. — Kenneth Waltz
It is not a zero sum game. The simple idea of the gains from trade lies at the heart of the modern and the ancient economy, not the power of capital. There is nothing else to it. — Matt Ridley
There are a couple of watersheds in human evolution. Most people are comfortable thinking about tool use and language use as watersheds. But the ability to play non-zero-sum games was another watershed. — Jonathan Haidt
Being rich is a good thing. Not just in the obvious sense of benefitting you and your family, but in the broader sense. Profits are not a zero sum game. The more you make, the more of a financial impact you can have. — Mark Cuban
At least half of the popular fallacies about economics come from assuming that economic activity is a zero-sum game, in which what is gained by someone is lost by someone else. But transactions would not continue unless both sides gained, whether in international trade, employment, or renting an apartment. — Thomas Sowell
A lot of people, including business leaders, think the future belongs to China. Globalization is not a zero-sum game, but we need to hone our skills to stay in play. — Jon Meacham
If the economy is not expanding, the redistribution of income becomes a zero-sum game. And therefore, all the class struggle - and it becomes much more vicious. — Manmohan Singh
The discussion of derivatives in the political world has become a zero sum game. — Jim Himes
When you are in a relationship, you are aware that it might end. You might grow apart, find someone else, simply fall out of love. But a friendship isn't a zero-sum game, and as such, you assume that it will last forever, especially an old friendship. You take its permanence for grandted, whuch might be the very thing so dear about it. — Emily Giffin
Competition for status is a zero sum game — Richard Layard, Baron Layard
There's a false notion that success is a zero sum game. To win in our careers we have to give up family. To work hard we have to sacrifice sleep. To accomplish we must take (or borrow or steal) from somewhere else in our lives. It's just not the case. — Maynard Webb
Much of our national debate proceeds as if China and America were locked in a zero-sum game in which one's loss is precisely the other's gain. — Eric Liu
In Newark, we see a problem and want to seize it, but we run up against the wall of state government, the wall of federal government that does not have the flexibility or doesn't see problems, even. At the federal level, it's often a zero-sum game: If you win, I lose. At the local level, it's just not local that. It's win-win-win. — Cory Booker
American leadership looks to the world and just as Lincoln did sees the family of man. Humanity is not a zero-sum game. — Jeff Flake
You become a character in a meta-drama into which your own dramatizing has pitched you. The rewards can be fantastic, the punishments dismal; it's a zero sum game, and its guarantor of value, its marker is that you pretend you play it solo, preserving the myth that you alone are the wellspring of your creativity. — Tony Kushner
Many guys see relationships with women as a zero-sum game: If she wins, he loses. Marriage is the ultimate contest: Her job is to get him to capitulate to marriage. So many men see marriage as the "end of freedom," the end of boyhood. That's why bachelor parties are supposed to revel in that boyish irresponsibility "one last time." So many guys figure, "Why rush into something that means basically that you'll be a prisoner forever?" — Michael Kimmel
One problem with politics is that it is a zero sum game, i.e. politicians argue how to cut the pie smaller and smaller, by reshuffling pieces of the pie. I think this is destructive. Instead, we should be creating a bigger pie, i.e. funding the science that is the source of all our prosperity. Science is not a zero sum game. — Michio Kaku
As to the latter point - that by having a child in America you are somehow starving a child in Bangladesh - remember that agricultural economics is not a zero-sum game. Farmers want to make a living, so as demand increases, so does production. Not only that, but agricultural productivity has increased so rapidly that in some countries the government pays farmers not to plant crops in an effort to keep food prices from dropping. — J. Budziszewski
Global education is not a zero-sum game. The rise of universities in Asia will be a benefit to the entire world. — Rick Levin
In the zero-sum budget game, every dollar spent on this problem [illegal immigration] must be taken from somewhere else....No, we should not tolerate people immigrating illegally. But we need to treat this issue honestly and fairly. — Leon Panetta
The funny thing about advertising is that it's not a zero-sum game... Historically, in the digital ad world, pie has gotten larger and it's possible for everyone to win, and it's perfectly possible that will continue to be true for quite some time. — Eric Schmidt
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