Quotes About Winners

I'm lucky to have met so many people who have been involved in peace and who have been peace prize winners.

Politics is not a baseball game with winners or losers. What politics is about is whether we protect the needs of millions of people in this country who are hurting.

Positive self-direction is the action plan that all winners in life use to turn imagination into reality, fantasy into fact, and dreams into actual goals.

Self belief, Wise choice and Karma are the three main ingredients of Winners.

Only winners have fans, No one care about losers

Out of any conflict, the losers create more myths than the winners. It is hardly a surprise. After all, winners have little to explain to themselves. They won. For the loser, however, coping with defeat, dealing with it personally and explaining it to others, places enormous strains on the ego, self-respect, and sense of self-worth of the defeated.

For example, the most consistent bit of irrational investment behavior is the commonplace observation that we are less likely to sell losers than winners. This is known in behavioral finance circles as "regret avoidance." Holding onto a stock that has done poorly keeps alive the possibility that we will not have to confront the finality of our failure.

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As one critic of these schemes wrote, 'the only winners in equity release are the companies and elderly people who die just a few years after taking out the policy.

Modern states are democratic, or at least it's generally felt they really should be. yet democracy, in modern states, is conceived very differently to, say, the workings of an assembly in an ancient city, which collectively deliberated on common problems. Rather, democracy as we have come to know it is effectively a game of winners and losers played out among larger-than-life individuals, with the rest of us reduced largely to onlookers.

Most of history is indisputably written by the winners, yet "winning" at Poitiers actually meant that the economic, scientific, and cultural levels that Europeans attained in the thirteenth century could almost certainly have been achieved more than three centuries earlier had they been included in the Muslim world empire.

Abraham Wald pointed out how even the best minds of the US military can be fooled by the winners. His analysis showed that a careful study of survivors can tell us a lot about the non-survivors, who are sometimes difficult or impossible to observe. Most importantly, he demonstrated that we should pay close attention to both survivors and non-survivors before drawing conclusions.

We are fooled by the winners because the winners can rewrite history.

We are on dangerous terrain when government picks winners and losers in the economy by subsidizing favored products and industries.

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.

The federal government has been a proven failure in picking winners and losers in the energy sector.

Great industries are never made from single companies. There is room in space for a lot of winners.

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.

Victory is a fleeting thing in the gambling business. Today's winners are tomorrow's blinking toads, dumb beasts with no hope.

Every system using data separates humanity into winners and losers.

Winners see an answer for every problem; losers see a problem in every answer!

On the £20,000 Mercedes prizes for each winner at the World Athletics Championships in Stuttgart- Anyone good enough to win already has one.

Losers have goals. Winners have systems.

It's not quite true that history is written by the winners. It's written by the best publicists on the winning team.