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Sure, we could replace winners and losers with some term like "A players" and "B players." But even judging past success has its flaws; I feel that society as a whole tends to put success, or "winning", on a pedestal. How many great minds have we benefited from who had significant flaws in their time, or went unrecognized?

People are probably a lot more complicated than we think. We try to sort them out into categories as best we can, but we should remember that our understanding of another person's value is limited at best. Calling out people as "losers" because they don't fit your purpose is immature.

Winner and Loser have personal traits attached to them. Loser almost implies that the individual had some problems personally and not in the way he executed the task.

Success and Failure imply that the individual did task X, Y , Z to achieve a result S or not achieve result S. It has more to do with an individuals execution at the instance.

Loser almost implies that the person is doomed and some how naturally incapable.

"Success" is a continuum. "Winners/losers" is binary.