A Quote by Ayrton Senna

Being second is to be the first of the ones who lose.

Ayrton Senna

Quote Topics

Be The First Being First Lose Second

Quote Author

Ayrton Senna
Brazilian - Celebrity
March 21, 1960 - May 1, 1994

Put first things first and we get second things thrown in: put second things first & we lose both first and second things.

C. S. Lewis

The first time I lose I drink whiskey, second time I lose I drink gin. Third time I lose I drink anything 'cause I think I'm gonna win.

Gram Parsons

Without either the first or second amendment, we would have no liberty; the first allows us to find out what's happening, the second allows us to do something about it! The second will be taken away first, followed by the first and then the rest of our freedoms.

Unknown

We can never lose what is really ours. Who can lose his being? Who can lose his very existence? If I am good, it is the existence first, and then that becomes colored with the quality of goodness. If I am evil, it is the existence first, and that becomes colored with the quality of badness. That existence is first, last, and always; it is never lost but ever present.

Swami Vivekananda

First-class players lose to second-class players because second-class players sometimes play a first-class game

Siegbert Tarrasch

I was the second-best player in high school. I was the second pick in the draft. I've been second in the MVP voting three times. I came in second in the Finals. I'm tired of being second. I'm not going to settle for that. I'm done with it.

Kevin Durant

Coming in second place just means you were the first person to lose.

Jeff Hawkins

I'm second, and so my brother is first. Being second, sometimes you get left out and all of that. The anecdotal stories about the firstborn, the baby, the middle - all of that is true.

Justin Hartley

There is first the literature of knowledge, and secondly, the literature of power. The function of the first is--to teach; the function of the second is--to move, the first is a rudder, the second an oar or a sail. The first speaks to the mere discursive understanding; the second speaks ultimately, it may happen, to the higher understanding or reason, but always through affections of pleasure and sympathy.

Thomas de Quincey

Being the number one seed, you're thinking you don't want to lose in the second round.

Frances Tiafoe

God manifests himself to us in the first degree through the life of the universe, and in the second degree through the thought of man. The second manifestation is not less holy than the first. The first is named Nature, the second is named Art.

Victor Hugo

I found that being top put all the pressure on second place, not first. The focus is on the second-place team, who can't afford to slip up again.

Graeme Souness

Warren Buffett likes to say that the first rule of investing is "Don't lose money," and the second rule is, "Never forget the first rule." I too believe that avoiding loss should be the primary goal of every investor. This does not mean that investors should never incur the risk of any loss at all. Rather "don't lose money" means that over several years an investment portfolio should not be exposed to appreciable loss of principal.

Seth Klarman

Right at the core, the mainstream has it backwards. Warren Buffett often quips that the first rule of investing is to not lose money, and the second rule is to not forget the first rule. Yet few investors approach the world with such a strict standard of risk avoidance.

Seth Klarman

I was always raised as a student first and an athlete second. I think that's the main purpose in college. Some athletes lose that perspective.