Quotes About Win-Lose

Zero-sum games deal with resources that neither increase nor decrease in amount—they only shift from one player to the other.

In much of urban and Western civilization today, with no proper tragic sense of life, we try to believe that it is all upward and onward--and by ourselves. It works for so few, and it cannot serve us well in the long run--because it is not true. It is an inherently win-lose game, and more and more people find themselves on the losing side.

strategy perforce becomes a zero-sum game where one company's gain is another company's loss