Winners Never Cheat/Huntsman 1-14

If the game runs sometimes against us at home, we must have patience till luck turns, and then we shall have an opportunity of winning back the principles we have lost, for this is a game where principles are at stake. Thomas Jefferson.

8 The rationale that everyone fudges, or that you have to cheat to stay competitive is a powerful lure, to be sure. The path to perdition is enticing, slippery, and all downhill.

9 Nice guys really can and do finish first in life.

14 Forget about who finishes first and who finishes last. Decent, honorable people finish races-and their lives-in grand style and with respect.

The twentieth-century explorer Ernest Shackleton, whose legendary, hero exploits in Antarctica looked at life as a game to be played fairly and with honor:

Life to me is the greatest of all games. The danger lies in treating it as a trivial game, a game to be taken lightly, and a game in which the rules don’t matter much. The rules matter a great deal. The game has to be played fairly or it is no game at all. And even to win the game is not the chief end. The chief end is to win it honorably and splendidly.