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“Why did I want to win? because I didn't want to lose!”

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Author:Max Schmeling

“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”

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Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.”

Source: The road ahead

“Companies, as they grow to become multi-billion-dollar entities, somehow lose their vision. They insert lots of layers of middle management between the people running the company and the people doing the work. They no longer have an inherent feel or a passion about the products. The creative people, who are the ones who care passionately, have to persuade five layers of management to do what they know is the right thing to do.”

“One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.”

Source: The Counterfeiters: A Novel

“You never expected justice from a company, did you? They have neither a soul to lose, nor a body to kick.”

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Author:Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow

“It is such a great fault to talk too much that, in business and conversation, if what is good is also brief, it is doubly good, and one gains by brevity what one often loses by an excess of words.”

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Author:Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

“My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose - somehow we win out.”

“Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty.”

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Book:Delphi Complete Works of Adam Smith (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Adam Smith (Illustrated)

“Every few seconds it changes - up an eighth, down an eighth - it's like playing a slot machine. I lose $20 million, I gain $20 million.”

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Author:Ted Turner

“It's unwise to pay too much, but it's worse to pay too little. When you pay too much, you lose a little money - that's all. When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing you bought was incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do. The common law of business balance prohibits paying a little and getting a lot - it can't be done. If you deal with the lowest bidder, it is well to add something for the risk you run, and if you do that you will have enough to pay for something better.”

“Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.”

“The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.”

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Author:Warren Buffett

“No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you're playing a solo game, you'll always lose out to a team.”

Source: The Start-up of You: Adapt to the Future, Invest in Yourself, and Transform Your Career

“The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand.”

“To know oneself is the first step toward making flow a part of one's entire life. But just as there is no free lunch in the material economy, nothing comes free in the psychic one. If one is not willing to invest psychic energy in the internal reality of consciousness, and instead squanders it in chasing external rewards, one loses mastery of one's life, and ends up becoming a puppet of circumstances.”

Source: Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning