Success is king, defeat is bandit(chéng zé wéi wáng ，bài zé wéi kòu)

Success is king, defeat is bandit

The pronunciation is ch é ngz é w é IW á ng, B à iz é w é IK à U. It used to mean that in the struggle for political power, those who succeed are legal, and those who fail are illegal, and they are called bandits. It means that the winners are powerful, no one dares to blame, but the losers are eloquent.

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Sun Yat Sen's speech at the first National Congress of the Kuomintang: "there is a custom in Chinese history that success is the king and failure is the enemy, but this is not the case in modern civilized countries."

words whose meaning is similar

If you succeed, you will be king; if you fail, you will be captive; if you win, you will be king; if you fail, you will be enemy.

Chinese PinYin : chéng zé wéi wáng ，bài zé wéi kòu