A Quote by George Carlin

Life is a zero sum game.

George Carlin

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George Carlin
American - Comedian
May 12, 1937 - June 22, 2008

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.

Michio Kaku

Trump sees the world in terms of a zero-sum game. In reality, globalisation, if well managed, is a positive-sum force: America gains if its friends and allies - whether Australia, the E.U., or Mexico - are stronger. But Trump's approach threatens to turn it into a negative-sum game: America will lose, too.

Joseph Stiglitz

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.

Jesse Jackson

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

President Trump sees the world in transactional and zero-sum terms - if something is good for China, it must be bad for the U.S. By contrast, economists see the world in much more nuanced ways: if globalization is well-managed, it can be a positive-sum game, where both the U.S. and China gain; if it is badly managed, it can be negative-sum.

Joseph Stiglitz

Competition for status is a zero sum game

Richard Layard, Baron Layard

Death is a zero sum game for which there is no cure.

S. Jay Olshansky

In a zero-sum game, the problem is entirely one of distribution, not at all one of production.

Kenneth Waltz

The discussion of derivatives in the political world has become a zero sum game.

Jim Himes

The only number that would ever be enough is 0. Zero pounds, zero life, size zero, double-zero, zero point. Zero in tennis is love. I finally get it.

Laurie Halse Anderson

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.

Richard Levin

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

Family policy is not a zero-sum game: any gain for dads need not come at the expense of mums.

David Lammy

American leadership looks to the world and just as Lincoln did sees the family of man. Humanity is not a zero-sum game.

Jeff Flake

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.

Matt Ridley

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