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“Economics is about creating win-win situations. But in sports, someone loses.”

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Author:Stan Kroenke

“My war - and I have yet to win a decisive battle - is with the modes of thought that and conditioned feelings that prevail in psychology and therefore also in the way we think and feel about our being. Of these conditions none are more tyrannical than the convictions that clamp the mind and heart into positivistic science (geneticism and computerism), economics (bottom-line capitalism), and single-minded faith (fundamentalism).”

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Author:James Hillman

“In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit.”

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Book:The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z

Source: The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z

“A competitive world offers two possibilities. You can lose. Or, if you want to win, you can change.”

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Author:Lester Thurow

“There are only two means by which men can deal with one another: guns or logic. Force or persuasion. Those who know that they cannot win by means of logic, have always resorted to guns.”

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Book:Philosophy: Who Needs It

Source: Philosophy: Who Needs It

“Wealth comes from successful individual efforts to please one's fellow man ... that's what competition is all about: "outpleasing" your competitors to win over the consumers.”

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Author:Walter E. Williams

“The trouble with conspiracies, even those that are to everybody's advantage in the long run, is that they are open to abuse. If manipulators really had the powers claimed, they could win the lottery every week. I prefer to point out that they could also win a Nobel Prize for discovering fundamental physical forces hitherto unknown to science.”

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Author:Richard Dawkins

“The idea [the government's 'You Win' campaign] is that instead of young people in Nigeria waiting to get employment, they should create their own jobs and employ their peers and employ other people.”

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Author:Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

“There is a small minority of well-educated people with relatively sensible views on economics, and an extremely tiny minority of economists with highly sensible views. Then there's everybody else. ... To win, a politician needs to please the median voter. It makes little difference if a few thousand economists think you a fool.”

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Author:Bryan Caplan

“Over the long term, absent of other barriers, economics always win.”

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Author:Andy Bechtolsheim

“We believe that economics does not necessarily have to be a zero-sum game; it can be a win-win proposition for everyone involved so long as they have the tools in which to succeed.”

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Author:Ron Kind