Competition Is Bad Quotes

#1. In the LBO field there is a buried "covariance" with marketable equities, toward disaster in generally bad business conditions, and competition is now extremely intense.

Charlie Munger

#2. I know there's a lot of competition in the world of magazines and newspapers and we have to make headlines and be sensational and sell, and saying bad things about me is going to sell more papers than writing good things about me.

Madonna Ciccone

#3. Competition between women is good only if it does not prevail; that is to say if it coexists with affinity, affection, with a real sense of being mutually indispensable, with sudden peaks of solidarity in spite of envy, jealousy and the whole inevitable cohort of bad feelings.

Elena Ferrante

#4. It was bad enough to have toppled from the Olympic heights to make my living competing with animals. But the competition wasn't even fair. No man could beat a race horse, not even for 100 yards.

Jesse Owens

#5. I met Patti LuPone and Elaine Paige in a party. I didn't speak too much with Patti, but she was lovely with me.

Elena Roger

#6. Despite my height, ignorance, heartbreaks, insecurity, criticism, competition, my skin color, that voice in my head that says 'No way', bad luck, a tight budget, insults, fear, flaws, failure and opposition. I believe in myself.

Manasa Rao

#7. Competition to further the world of pursuing ego=bad. Competition to improve both capabilities and processes = good.

Pearl Zhu

#8. Competition isn't a bad thing. Somebody can always do it better and that somebody is you.

Linda Rawson

#9. I know what a really bad day is ... and that's not losing a competition.

Sara McMann

#10. I can skate beautifully. While performing on ice I always try to please the audience and to win as well. Being artistic is very important to get the audience on your side. As for a competition, you can't win without strong technical content.

Evgeni Plushenko

#11. Take a step back and view the world through your eyes, not someone else's. Listen to your heart and decide what you really want.

Fennel Hudson

#12. My instinct is to assume that we consumers are an inconsistent bunch. We like competition if it delivers low prices, but grumble if it delivers the bad news that prices need to go up.

Evan Davis

#13. Viktor Petrenko and I met at a competition, where I beat him completely accidentally. I felt so embarrassed in front of my idol.

Evgeni Plushenko

#14. Oftentimes winning can become an addiction, whether good or bad, to the point where you would rather lose it all before you lose at all.

Criss Jami

#15. Competition is a bad company [kusang, the company which will bring our downfall].

Dada Bhagwan

#16. But was not a theory of which all the elements were provably true a simple tautology? In the region of the unprovable, or even the disprovable, lay the only chance for breaking out of the circle and going ahead. In

Ursula K. Le Guin

#17. It was bad enough to be swallowed up by the intrinsic anger of New York City traffic and its seemingly mad competition between cars, cabs, the ubiquitous delivery trucks, the kamikaze bike messengers and the always-in-a-damn hurry pedestrians.

Nora Roberts

#18. Having no competition is a bad thing. Competition makes you try to improve yourself all the time.

Shu Qi

#19. America breeds ambition and while that can be a good thing, sometimes it's not. Ambition also breeds competition and that can be a very bad thing. People become chronically preoccupied with competing and don't know when to stop. It can become unhealthy.

Chaka Khan

#20. What if I say no?"
"I keep asking till the only option is yes. I always win, Ms. Payne.

Mercy Cortez

#21. It is especially painful when narcissists suffer memory loss because they are losing parts of the person they love most.

David Brooks

#22. Successful fiction does not need to be validated by 'real life'; I cringe whenever a writer is asked how much of a novel is 'real'.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#23. If you have a strong opponent, a competition is stimulating. I am generally most open to ideas when I have had a bad result. In chess, too, players specialise. This specialty then becomes an entry barrier.

Viswanathan Anand

#24. Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Fred Allen

#25. In this day and time, with no competition you are really walking a tightrope. I mean you may think that no competition is good, but in reality no competition is really bad.

Jerry Lawler

#26. According to bourgeois standards, those who are completely unlucky and unsuccessful are automatically barred from competition, which is the life of society. Good fortune is identified with honor, and bad luck with shame.

Hannah Arendt

#27. A recession is very bad for publicly traded companies, but it's the best time for startups. When you have massive layoffs, there's more competition for available jobs, which means that an entrepreneur can hire freelancers at a lower cost.

Timothy Ferriss

#28. Alice wondered if her mother was aware that she wasn't the only one in town who'd come down with a bad case of Blueberry Fever.

Sarah Weeks

#29. What if this young woman, who writes such bad poems, in competition with her husband, whose poems are equally bad, should stretch her remarkably long and well-made legs out before you, so that her skirt slips up to the tops of her stockings?

Gilbert Sorrentino

#30. Battle ... brings out all that is best.

George S. Patton