Winners Quotes

Some Pulitzer winners - novelists - have confided to me that getting the prize screwed them up. It messed with their heads. That hasn't been my experience.

Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.

I love winners when they cry, losers when they try.

Winners do what losers don't want to do.

One characteristic of winners is they always look upon themselves as a do it yourself project.

I think I pick more winners than losers.

So, there is enormous instability in the global economy with a shift of winners and losers.

There are winners, there are losers and there are people who have not yet learned how to win.

Without winners, there wouldn't even be any civilization.

Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

I've done the same thing in the world of business that winners do in the game. I watch them, admire them.

Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.

Failures are expected by losers, ignored by winners.

As in any technological revolution, there will be winners and losers. On balance, everyone will come out ahead, although there will be particular companies that will not be able to cope with a new environment.

The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do.

The roster of Nobel Peace Prize winners, though it has some strange people on it from time to time, tends to feature folks who fought for social justice in a nonviolent and constructive way somehow.

The big winners under the American fiscal system are the rich, who pay some of the lowest taxes anywhere in the world; the old, who are the main beneficiaries of the American social service state; farmers, rural people. These are Republican constituencies.

Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors.

I call crony capitalism, where you take money from successful small businesses, spend it in Washington on favored industries, on favored individuals, picking winners and losers in the economy, that's not pro-growth economics. That's not entrepreneurial economics. That's not helping small businesses. That's cronyism, that's corporate welfare.

History keeps her secrets longer than most of us. But she has one secret that I will reveal to you tonight in the greatest confidence. Sometimes there are no winners at all. And sometimes nobody needs to lose.

Many medal winners dream of competing in a sport other than the one they're famous for.

Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.

Peace does not include a vendetta; there will be neither winners nor losers.

Peace does not include a vendetta; there will be neither winners nor losers.

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.

We need to lower tax rates for everybody, starting with the top corporate tax rate. We need to simplify the tax code. The ultimate answer, in my opinion, is the fair tax, which is a fair tax for everybody, because as long as we still have this messed-up tax code, the politicians are going to use it to reward winners and losers.

We changed our image. At least when we ran out on the field or broke the huddle, we would look like winners.

Number four, we're going to play like winners, play the game the way it's meant to be played. Don't get full of yourself if something good happens. Don't get too depressed when something bad happens.

Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art - an individual masterpiece.

When you let someone else win an argument, often you both end up winners.