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  • Life is a zero sum game. -- George Carlin
  • Competition for status is a zero sum game -- Richard Layard, Baron Layard
  • The income effects in an economy always sum to zero. -- Arthur Laffer
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  • Death is a zero sum game for which there is no cure. -- S. Jay Olshansky
  • The discussion of derivatives in the political world has become a zero sum game. -- Jim Himes
  • Being negative is not how we make progress, and the most important things are not zero sum, -- Larry Page
  • In a zero-sum game, the problem is entirely one of distribution, not at all one of production. -- Kenneth Waltz
  • If you're searching for "work/life balance" you'll always be disappointed because "balance" connotes a zero-sum equation. -- Stewart D. Friedman
  • We have the data to prove to men that gender equality is not a zero-sum game, but a win-win. -- Michael Kimmel
  • It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum. -- Sam Harris
  • Active management is a zero-sum game before cost, and the winners have to win at the expense of the losers. -- Eugene Fama
  • Global education is not a zero-sum game. The rise of universities in Asia will be a benefit to the entire world. -- Rick Levin
  • Global education is not a zero-sum game. The rise of universities in Asia will be a benefit to the entire world. -- Rick Levin
  • Gambling has a zero-sum economic effect in its market and, like legalizing cocaine, the socio-economic costs of legalizing gambling overwhelm the benefits -- John Warren Kindt
  • My guiding principle is that prosperity can be shared. We can create wealth together. The global economy is not a zero-sum game. -- Julia Gillard
  • There comes a point when you have to realize that the sum of all your blood, sweat, and tears will ultimately amount to zero. -- Max Brooks
  • In the great non zero sum games of history, if you're part of the problem, then you'll likely be a victim of the solution. -- Robert Wright
  • We act like a zero-sum society, when in reality there is a lot of non zero-sum fat to be skimmed off to everyone's mutual advantage. -- Howard Raiffa
  • Much of our national debate proceeds as if China and America were locked in a zero-sum game in which one's loss is precisely the other's gain. -- Eric Liu
  • [The] zero-sum caricature [applies] much more accurately to socialism, which stifles the creation of new wealth and thus fosters a dog-eat-dog struggle over existing material resources. -- George Gilder
  • We know what happens when Europeans start dividing themselves up and emphasizing their differences and seeing a competition between various countries in a zero sum way. -- Barack Obama
  • If the economy is not expanding, the redistribution of income becomes a zero-sum game. And therefore, all the class struggle - and it becomes much more vicious. -- Manmohan Singh
  • Building a startup community is not a zero-sum game in which there are winners and losers: if everyone engages, they and the entire community can all be winners. -- Brad Feld
  • In a world where global politics is no longer a zero-sum game, it is - or should be - counterintuitive to pursue one's interests without considering the interests of others. -- Hassan Rouhani
  • A lot of people, including business leaders, think the future belongs to China. Globalization is not a zero-sum game, but we need to hone our skills to stay in play. -- Jon Meacham
  • There are a couple of watersheds in human evolution. Most people are comfortable thinking about tool use and language use as watersheds. But the ability to play non-zero-sum games was another watershed. -- Jonathan Haidt
  • 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. -- Ron Kind
  • Writers aren't in competition with one another. It isn't a zero sum game. If you have a good book, a good cover, a good product description, and a low price, you can sell well. -- J. A. Konrath
  • The person that is buying a share of stock is convinced he knows something that the other person who's selling it to him does not know. There's no zero sum game in Wall Street. -- Bernard Madoff
  • Programming is not a zero-sum game. Teaching something to a fellow programmer doesn't take it away from you. I'm happy to share what I can, because I'm in it for the love of programming. -- John Carmack
  • The zero-sum world [the movie The Social Network] portrayed has nothing in common with the Silicon Valley I know, but I suspect it's a pretty accurate portrayal of the dysfunctional relationships that dominate Hollywood. -- Peter Thiel
  • Most financiers, corporate lawyers, lobbyists, and management consultants are competing with other financiers, lawyers, lobbyists, and management consultants in zero-sum games that take money out of one set of pockets and put it into another. -- Robert Reich
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