Competition Quotes

Women are always told, 'You're not going to make it, its too difficult, you can't do that, don't enter this competition, you'll never win it,' - they need confidence in themselves and people around them to help them to get on.

Strategy is about setting yourself apart from the competition. It's not a matter of being better at what you do - it's a matter of being different at what you do.

There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women.

I'm only in competition with my last level.

Extreme taxation, excessive controls, oppressive government competition with business, frustrated minorities and forgotten Americans are not the products of free enterprise. They are the residue of centralized bureaucracy, of government by a self-anointed elite.

I am not in competition with anyone but myself. My goal is to improve myself continuously.

The mere possession of monopoly power, and the concomitant charging of monopoly prices, is not only not unlawful, it is an important element of the free-market system. The opportunity to charge monopoly prices - at least for a short period - is what attracts 'business acumen' in the first place; it induces risk taking that produces innovation and economic growth.

The world is so full of people who are grabbing and self-seeking.
So the rare individual who unselfishly tries to serve others has an enormous advantage.
He has little competition.

A society which discards those who are weak and non-productive risks exaggerating the development of reason, organisation, aggression and the desire to dominate. It becomes a society without a heart, without kindness - a rational and sad society, lacking celebration, divided within itself and given to competition, rivalry and, finally, violence.

Take someone who doesn't keep score, who's not looking to be richer, or afraid of losing, who has not the slightest interest even in his own personality: he's free.

Competition is the law of the jungle, but cooperation is the law of civilization

The rate of change is not going to slow down anytime soon. If anything, competition in most industries will probably speed up even more in the next few decades.

The only competition that matters is the one that takes place within yourself.

I'm not in competition with anybody but myself. My goal is to beat my last performance.

If you could get all the people in an organization rowing in the same direction, you could dominate any industry, in any market, against any competition, at any time.

Don't kill the competition. Competition is healthy for businesses. It keeps you the entrepreneur on your toes.

The greatest competition of idiocy and ignorance that has ever been.

Practice like it's competition and compete like it's another day on the practice court.

Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.

You can't look at the competition and say you're going to do it better. You have to look at the competition and say you're going to do it differently.

People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.

The selection of a Republican candidate for the presidency of this globalized and expansive empire is - and I mean this seriously - the greatest competition of idiocy and ignorance that has ever been.

I'm in competition with myself and I'm losing.

Poverty - the greatest cause of human suffering on the planet - is itself exacerbated by conflict, competition for resources, injustice, even the global downturn and climate change. Diseases like AIDS, TB and malaria cannot be tackled without adequate resources. So you see everything is connected. In order to address any major cause of human suffering, we have to work together across many fronts.

Affirmative action was designed to keep women and minorities in competition with each other to distract us while white dudes inject AIDS into our chicken nuggets.

Those who participate in [sabbath] break the anxiety cycle. They are invited to awareness that life does not consist in frantic production and consumption that reduces everyone else to threat and competition.

The most important attribute a player must have is mental toughness.

I write the vocals last, because I wanted to invent the music first and push the music to the level that I had to compete against it.

If you are unable to compete with the pious in their good deeds, compete with the sinful in their repentance.

Why can't DFW compete like San Francisco does with Oakland, like Miami does with Fort Lauderdale, and like Chicago O'Hare does with Midway?

In the tail above the giant resonance, you can get not just one neutron emitted but two, three, four or five, and so there are a lot of things one can measure, looking at the competition with the emission of neutrons and protons and so on.

[John D. Rockefeller] didn't care about anyone he did anything just to be rich and be the only company standing without any competition. He destroyed anyone else.

I find very often that very ugly women have really handsome men and vice versa because they don't have any competition. Sometimes handsome men have avoided me.

Inside the Great Mystery that is, we don't really own anything. What is this competition we feel then, before we go, one at a time, through the same gate?

I may win and I may lose, but I will never be defeated

Competition got me off the farm and trained me to seek out challenges and to endure setbacks; and in combination with my faith, it sustains me now in my fight with Alzheimer's disease.

The thing that keeps a business ahead of the competition is excellence in execution.

Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand; it is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy.

Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.

In training, you listen to your body. In competition, you tell your body to shut up.

My best year of track competition was the first year I ate a vegan diet.

The rare individuals who unselfishly try to serve others have an enormous advantage-they have little competition.

If you can't be better than your competition, just dress better.

Competition is great. And as long as it's friendly and not a malicious thing, then I think it's cool.

I loved tests because it was another form of competing, a healthy competition.

There are only two sources of competitive advantage: the ability to learn more about our customers faster than the competition and the ability to turn that learning into action faster than the competition.

Competition is healthy. Competition is life. Yet most actors refuse to acknowledge this. They don't want to compete. They want to get along. And they are therefore not first-rate actors. The good actor is the one who competes, willingly, who enjoys competing. An actor must compete, or die...Peacefulness and the avoidance of trouble won't help in his acting. It is just the opposite he must seek.

Why should antitrust laws be used to block mergers that the market, by the existence of willing buyers and sellers, shows to be desirable?

Control your expenses better than your competition. This is where you can always find the competitive advantage.

After my first day of competition I put on compression socks. They help me recover for the next day.