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Quotes About Losers

Who retires before they even get to the UFC? Losers, that's who.
~ Colby Covington
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
success is an enemy to the losers of the day
~ Phil Ochs
Now losers have this advantage, that though their own folk disapprove of them they are generally popular with everyone else. Having no work to chain them, they became public property. Just
~ Rabindranath Tagore
Successful people are not interesting. I feel for the losers. That's where my heart lies.
~ Karin Fossum
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
Secrecy is for losers. For people who do not know how important the information really is.
~ Daniel Patrick Moynihan
decided that good scholarship demanded taking the losers' point of view, and that made the revision of claims about historic fact inevitable.
~ Darrell L. Bock
Waste is the antiproperty that becomes the possession of losers. It is the emblem of the untitled.
~ 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
The silence to which the losers pledge themselves is the silence of obedience. Losers have nothing to say; nor have they an audience who would listen. The vanquished are effectively of one with the victors, and of one mind; they are completely incapable of opposition, and therefore without any otherness whatsoever.
~ James P. Carse
To use Freud's famous phrase, the civilized are, therefore, the discontent. We do not become losers in civilization but become civilized as losers. The collective result of this ineradicable sense of failure is that civilizations take on the spirit of resentment. Acutely sensitive to an imagined audience, they are easily offended by other civilizations.
~ James P. Carse
Peace does not include a vendetta there will be neither winners nor losers.
~ Ahmed Ben Bella
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 n?ra nugal?toj? melai <...>, tai veikiau išgyvenusi?j? prisiminimai, ir dauguma j? n?ra nei nugal?tojai, nei pralaim?jusieji.
~ Julian Barnes
Istorija yra nugal?toj? melas, tik reikia pridurti, jog tai ir nugal?t?j? saviapgaul?.
~ Julian Barnes
This phenomenon, where the losers of a revolution try to demonstrate their support for, and approval of, the changes that have destroyed them, always fascinates me.
~ Julian Fellowes
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.
~ Bernie Sanders
Revenge is one of the few things in politics that never gets lost in the mail or written off for a dime on the dollar like losers' campaign debts or pledges to help the Poor.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
Only winners have fans, No one care about losers
~ Mohammed Sekouty
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.
~ William C. Davis
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.
~ William J. Bernstein
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.
~ David Graeber