The single greatest lesson the garden teaches is that our relationship to the planet need not be zero-sum, and that as long as the sun still shines and people still can plan and plant, think and do, we can, if we bother to try, find ways to provide for ourselves without diminishing the world.
Quotes about zero-sum (12 Quotes)
The electronics content in almost everything is increasing. The U.S. is still creating new businesses. We can still growand without its being at the expense of some other company. It's not always a zero-sum game.
War is grounded in the notion of triumph and defeat. It is zero-sum.
We have real needs that we have to meet for rebuilding in the Gulf Coast, and with our tight budgets, this is almost a zero-sum game. And now we're taking about moving a railroad that's been rebuilt already That doesn't make sense.
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.
There is a sense that business is a zero-sum game, that if companies are making a lot of money, it must be coming out of someone else's pocket.
Both Apple and Creative are doing well and it is not necessarily at the expense of each other. It's not a zero-sum game. This is a good market to be in.
A lot of the management of distribution is common sense. The problem is getting everyone's interests reasonably well aligned, getting people to play nicely together even though their interests are often not strictly aligned, and getting people to not act as though everything is a pure zero-sum game.
My guess is this is not a time when anyone is looking at a zero-sum game between one state or another.
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.
Businesses would rather go to a state where the employees have the right to join a union or not to join a union. In that sense, then, it's sort of a zero-sum game - where they are competing with and attracting business from other states.
If you stand back and look at the past 50 years, all these parties have been competing with each other for resources. There have been some agreements but essentially they've been competing in a zero-sum game.