“In making war with nature, there was risk of loss in winning.”
John McPhee book The Control of Nature
The Control of Nature (1989)
Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money-That the Poor and the Middle Class Do Not!
“In making war with nature, there was risk of loss in winning.”
John McPhee book The Control of Nature
The Control of Nature (1989)
“The best and greatest winning is a true friend; and the greatest loss is the loss of time.”
Pythagoras (-585–-495 BC) ancient Greek mathematician and philosopher
The Sayings of the Wise (1555)
Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Reported in James C. Humes, Speaker's Treasury of Anecdotes About the Famous (1978), p. 45, as a remark made in the House of Commons responding to a Laborite speech on the evils of free enterprise; reported as unverified in Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations (1989).
Disputed
Anosh Irani (1974) Canadian writer
Source: The Cripple and His Talismans
Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America
2010s, 2016, January, Speech at Liberty University (18 January 2016)
“Winning is not everything – but making the effort to win is.”
Vince Lombardi (1913–1970) American football player, coach, and executive