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Quotes About Winners

Among the great names that adorn the roll of Nobel prize-winners in Medicine is that of Otto Meyerhof, my admired teacher and friend, to whose inspiration, guidance and encouragement I owe so very much.
~ Severo Ochoa
The typical big winner in the Lynch portfolio (I continue to pick my share of losers, too!) generally takes three to ten years or more to play out.
~ Peter Lynch
I grew up watching the 'People's Choice Awards.'
~ Karin Slaughter
Successful people are not interesting. I feel for the losers. That's where my heart lies.
~ Karin Fossum
El aumento de las desigualdades corroe la confianza; tiene un impacto económico similar al de un disolvente universal. Crea un mundo económico en el que hasta los ganadores son precavidos. Y los perdedores… En toda transacción, en todo contacto con un jefe, una empresa o un burócrata, ven la mano de alguien que quiere aprovecharse de ellos.
~ Joseph E. Stiglitz
We're more comfortable in that kind of business. It means we miss a lot of very big winners. But we wouldn't know how to pick them out anyway. It also means we have very few big losers - and that's quite helpful over time. We're perfectly willing to trade away a big payoff for a certain payoff.
~ Warren Edward Buffett
Les gagnants ne font qu'aider les autres à gagner, et les perdants ne font que faire tomber les autres.
~ Werley Nortreus
So I think the winners in recession are the people who produce new technology that does things better, which people really want.
~ James Dyson
Some titles are inherited, though only when the bloodline or some other tangible connection with the original winner has been established, suggesting that the winners have continued to exist in their descendants. The heirs to titles are therefore obliged to display the appropriate emblems: a coat of arms or identifiable styles of speech, clothing, or behavior. It is a principal function of society to validate titles and to assure their perpetual recognition.
~ James P Carse
What the winners of finite games achieve is not properly an afterlife but an afterworld, not continuing existence but continuing recognition of their titles.
~ James P Carse
The power of citizens in a society is determined by their ranking in games that have been played. A society preserves its memory of past winners. Its record-keeping functions are crucial to societal order. Large bureaucracies grow out of the need to verify the numerous entitlements of the citizens of that society.
~ James P Carse
There is no effective pattern of entitlement in a society short of the free agreement of all opponents that the titles to property are in the hands of the actual winners.
~ James P Carse
If we defer to titled winners, it is only because we regard ourselves as losers. To do so is freely to take part in the theater of power.
~ James P. Carse
Whoever wins this struggle is privileged with the claim of true knowledge. Knowledge has been arrived at, it is the outcome of this engagement. Its winners have the uncontested power to make certain statements of fact. They are to be listened to. In those areas appropriate to the contests now concluded, winners possess a knowledge that no longer can be challenged.
~ James P. Carse
Peace does not include a vendetta there will be neither winners nor losers.
~ Ahmed Ben Bella
Members of Congress are like the voters in one respect -- they want to go with the winners.
~ Ralph Nader
Here then are the choices we all face moment by moment: Will we aim to be impressive? Will we expect to be in complete control? Will we ensure that we always come out on top as winners? Or will we be happy for the power of Christ to rest upon us in our endless weakness? 'No man can give at once the impressions that he himself is clever and that Jesus Christ is mighty to save.' Neither can any church.
~ Ray Ortlund
In the Premier League, you never know who is going to win or who will be champions. It is always a surprise.
~ Neymar
There's two kinds of people in this world, there's winners and there's losers. Okay, you know what the difference is? Winners don't give up.--Little Miss Sunshine
~ Richard Hoover
Istorija yra nugal?toj? melas, tik reikia pridurti, jog tai ir nugal?t?j? saviapgaul?.
~ Julian Barnes
Avoid losers. If you hear someone use the words 'impossible', 'never', 'too difficult' too often, drop him or her from your social network.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am.
~ Denis Waitley
The ultimate winners are willing to take ultimate risks.
~ Brooks Johnson
Only the winners decide what were war crimes.
~ Garry Wills