“Through your thoughts, you create your own games, and you win your own games because perhaps you have forgotten how to play the real game. What is the real game? It is the game in which the heart is entertained, the game in which you are entertained. It is the game that you will win.”

“Business is a game, played for fantastic stakes, and you're in competition with experts. If you want to win, you have to learn to be a master of the game.”

“I'm afraid that sometimes you'll play lonely games too. Games you can't win 'cause you'll play against you.”

“Don't bet your life on a speculative game that you can't win.”

“Game theory applies to a very different type of conflict, now technically called a game. The well-known games such as poker, chess, ticktacktoe and so forth are games in the strict technical Bark and counterbark sense. But what makes parlor games games is not their entertainment value or detachment from real life.”

“I play to win, whether during practice or a real game.”

“We need clear rules to play the game. We need to have respect for the law. If you play a chess game but after two or three moves you can change the rules, how can people play with you? Of course you will win, but after 60 years you will still be a bad player because you never meet anyone who can challenge you. What kind of game is that? Is that interesting? This game is not right, but who is going to say, 'Hey, let’s play fairly?”

“A finite game is played for the purpose of winning, an infinite game for the purpose of continuing the play.”

“Power is a game, and in games you do not judge your opponents by their intentions but by the effects of their actions.”

“Sometimes you have to lose a piece to win a game.”