A system is set up to accomplish something other than its own continued existence, it isn't just a perpetual motion machine or some Kafkaesque bureaucracy. If the system has an aim there is a goal, so to say "losers have goals, winners have systems" is vacuous. It sounds pithy and perhaps even profound, but it isn't.
Somewhat pedantic, I assumed the original commenter was talking about systems with a point, otherwise the entire thread of thought is more pointless than I originally thought.
