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  • 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.

    Zero   Couple   Thinking  
    Interview with Tamler Sommers, www.believermag.com. August 2005.
  • When you are in a relationship, you are aware that it might end. You might grow apart, find someone else, simply fall out of love. But a friendship isn't a zero-sum game, and as such, you assume that it will last forever, especially an old friendship. You take its permanence for grandted, whuch might be the very thing so dear about it.

  • Psychologist Nathaniel Branden speaks of a benevolent sense of life possible to those with rational, productive values, vividly contrasted with the coercive parasitic group-culture of mystics and altruists we live in, where people all around you seem a burdensome annoyance, a threat to your survival. Having been told from childhood that life is a zero-sum game in which you owe everything to others, at some level you worry all the time that someday the bastards will collect. And collect they do, every April 15th. Why do you think they call it collectivism?

    Zero   Thinking   Games  
  • We have the data to prove to men that gender equality is not a zero-sum game, but a win-win.

    Zero   Winning   Men  
  • Global education is not a zero-sum game. The rise of universities in Asia will be a benefit to the entire world.

    Zero   Games   Benefits  
  • Being rich is a good thing. Not just in the obvious sense of benefitting you and your family, but in the broader sense. Profits are not a zero sum game. The more you make, the more of a financial impact you can have.

    Inspiring   Zero   Impact  
    "Get rich, pay taxes: it's a patriotic duty" by Mark Cuban, www.theguardian.com. September 22, 2011.
  • 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.

    Zero   Struggle   Games  
  • Death is a zero sum game for which there is no cure.

  • 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.

    Success   Zero   Believe  
  • Many guys see relationships with women as a zero-sum game: If she wins, he loses. Marriage is the ultimate contest: Her job is to get him to capitulate to marriage. So many men see marriage as the "end of freedom," the end of boyhood. That's why bachelor parties are supposed to revel in that boyish irresponsibility "one last time." So many guys figure, "Why rush into something that means basically that you'll be a prisoner forever?"

    Zero   Jobs   Party  
    "How hookups and hang-ups delay manhood". TODAYshow.com Q&A, www.today.com. August 26, 2008.
  • As to the latter point - that by having a child in America you are somehow starving a child in Bangladesh - remember that agricultural economics is not a zero-sum game. Farmers want to make a living, so as demand increases, so does production. Not only that, but agricultural productivity has increased so rapidly that in some countries the government pays farmers not to plant crops in an effort to keep food prices from dropping.

    Country   Zero   Children  
  • 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.

    Zero   Loss   Games  
  • You become a character in a meta-drama into which your own dramatizing has pitched you. The rewards can be fantastic, the punishments dismal; it's a zero sum game, and its guarantor of value, its marker is that you pretend you play it solo, preserving the myth that you alone are the wellspring of your creativity.

    Zero   Drama   Creativity  
    Source: www.guernicamag.com
  • 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.

    Zero   Thinking   Games  
  • 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.

    Zero   Games   Community  
    Brad Feld (2012). “Startup Communities: Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Your City”, p.45, John Wiley & Sons
  • I don't look at business as a zero-sum game. I don't. I've never seen it play out that way in our industry, and I think you innovate and you add value, deliver value back to customers, and you get value back from the world.

    Zero   Thinking   Games  
  • 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.

    Zero   Teaching   Games  
  • There's a false notion that success is a zero sum game. To win in our careers we have to give up family. To work hard we have to sacrifice sleep. To accomplish we must take (or borrow or steal) from somewhere else in our lives. It's just not the case.

    "The “Spirit of And”: Part 2" by Maynard Webb, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 20, 2010.
  • Competition for status is a zero sum game

  • It is not a zero sum game. The simple idea of the gains from trade lies at the heart of the modern and the ancient economy, not the power of capital. There is nothing else to it.

    Zero   Lying   Heart  
  • One problem with politics is that it is a zero sum game, i.e. politicians argue how to cut the pie smaller and smaller, by reshuffling pieces of the pie. I think this is destructive. Instead, we should be creating a bigger pie, i.e. funding the science that is the source of all our prosperity. Science is not a zero sum game.

    Zero   Cutting   Thinking  
    Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. March 7, 2014.
  • 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.

    Zero   Games   Problem  
  • The funny thing about advertising is that it's not a zero-sum game... Historically, in the digital ad world, pie has gotten larger and it's possible for everyone to win, and it's perfectly possible that will continue to be true for quite some time.

  • Life is a zero sum game.

    Zero   Stupid   Games  
  • Active management is a zero-sum game before cost, and the winners have to win at the expense of the losers.

    Zero   Winning   Games  
  • My guiding principle is that prosperity can be shared. We can create wealth together. The global economy is not a zero-sum game.

    "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • We still find, especially in parts of academe, the damaging notion that everything is a struggle for power, or being empowered, or hegemony, or oppression: and that all competition is a zero-sum game. This is not more than repetition of Lenin's destructive doctrine. Intellectually, it is reductionism; politically, it is fanaticism.

    Zero   Struggle   Games  
  • The discussion of derivatives in the political world has become a zero sum game.

    Zero   Games   Political  
    "Jim Himes, Former Goldman Sachs Executive, Introduces Bill To Roll Back Key Element Of Dodd-Frank". Connecticut Mirror Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 07, 2013.
  • On the political front, of course it's a zero-sum game. If it's all white males holding positions, you bring 10 women in, then it's, 'Women are coming!' Get 10 blacks and it's, 'Blacks are coming!' 'Hispanics are coming!' Zero-sum game. The seatmates might change but the chairs don't move. In the economy, the number of chairs can actually increase.

    Zero   Moving   Games  
    "Jesse Jackson: the Mother Jones Interview". Interview with Douglas Foster, www.motherjones.com. March/April 2000.
  • It is sort of a bit of a caricature of capitalism, that it's always this zero-sum game where you have winners and losers. Silicon Valley, the technology industry at its best, creates a situation where everybody can be a winner.

    Zero   Technology   Games  
    Interview with Victoria Brown, bigthink.com. November 15, 2010.
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