Top 100 Not Competition Quotes
#1. You wanna know what scares people? Success. When you don't make moves and when you don't climb up the ladder, everybody loves you because you're not competition.
Nicki Minaj
#2. When a major airline goes on a route that a new entrant has gone into, reduces fares, increases capacity, and then when the new entrant goes off, they leave the route, that's not competition.
John McCain
#3. It's not competition and greed that makes the world go around, it's cooperating and caring
Ed Mayo
#5. Perhaps in every close friendship there is an element of, if not competition, then comparison. Perhaps that is one of the things that makes a friend belong especially to us. Somehow, in the secrecy of our hearts, a scale must balance.
Nancy Thayer
#6. There's a theory that says that life is based on a competition and the struggle and the fight for survival, and it's interesting because when you look at the fractal character of evolution, it's totally different. It's based on cooperation among the elements in the geometry and not competition.
Bruce Lipton
#7. The principle component in any genuine friendship is caring, not competition.
Charles F. Glassman
#8. We have to re-invent socialism. It can't be the kind of socialism that we saw in the Soviet Union, but it will emerge as we develop new systems that are built on cooperation, not competition,
Hugo Chavez
#9. Because up to sixteen years old you feel gymnastics more. You can show your emotion, grace, like woman gymnastics, not kid's gymnastics. I feel I have good shape, and I can do it elements everything, but, it's not competition for me.
Olga Korbut
#10. Biologists will teach us that the survival of the species depends on cooperation, not competition.
Robert Holden
#11. Sometimes the enemy is not competition, but rather the comfort of repetition and complacency.
Anonymous
#12. I'm not in a competition with any other artist, anything that's goin' on - I'm strictly competing with myself.
Joe Budden
#13. In competition, when I start performance I try not to think about all the pressure from the fans. But, I got a lot of energy from them always. They make me more perfect.
Kim Yuna
#14. I am not in competition with my peers; I am in competition with myself.
Don Dokken
#15. The Eisenhower Memorial competition and project have stirred a remarkable polemic, the center of which is not President Eisenhower or Washington, D.C. but Mr. Gehry and the values he promulgates.
Leon Krier
#16. Veterans get priority in the training room and better parking, but there is not a whole lot of difference in terms of how they're treated in the competition for playing time. To me it doesn't matter if a guy is a 10-year veteran or a rookie. If the rookie is better, he finds his way onto the field.
Brendan Daly
#17. Do not hold the delusion that your advancement is accomplished by crushing others.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#18. It would clearly not be an improvement to build all houses exactly alike in order to create a perfect market for houses, and the same is true of most other fields where differences between the individual products prevent competition from ever being perfect.
Friedrich August Von Hayek
#19. I simply am going to look you in the eye and say that if the United States hopes to remain a major player among nations, facing challenges such as poverty, inadequate education, and global market competition, we're going to need to draw deeply from our entire talent pool, not just half of it.
Kathy Cloninger
#20. This law ... defines the limits of competition in the community of life. You may compete to the full extent of your capabilities, but you may not hunt down your competitors or destroy their food or deny them access to food. In other words, you may compete but you may not wage war.
Daniel Quinn
#21. And war is wonderful, isn't it?
For it's war, isn't it, that the Americans have been preparing for and are preparing for this way step by step.
In order to defend this senseless manufacture from all competition that could not fail to arise on all sides.
Antonin Artaud
#22. My parents are very competitive, so we are very competitive as kids. But it's a good kind of competition; it's not a jealousy. You always want to do your best, and if it can't be you, you want it to be your brother or your sister, you know what I mean?
Janet Jackson
#23. There is never any pressure, jealousy or competition but only a quiet calmness when they are around. You can be yourself and not worry about what they will think of you because they love you for who you are.
Bob Marley
#24. There's competition in every field, and that's healthy. It makes you work harder and be your best. Competition, not in terms of money or number of projects, but in the quality of your work, is very healthy.
Katrina Kaif
#25. It's not a competition, it's a doorway.
Mary Oliver
#26. Don't be distressed, Elle, about the other girls and who made it. With you here, I'm not sure there is much competition.
Chanda Hahn
#27. The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.
Ralph Abernathy
#28. I don't know if it's just me or everyone, but the whole vibe with skiing is not so much thriving on competition against others as it is against myself and the clock.
Picabo Street
#29. In New York and L.A., there is sort of that silent competition to be on the cutting edge of something. You end up having a conversation with how the world receives your work, especially if you are writing narrative, not fiction. Sometimes it is an awkward conversation. It's like group therapy.
Sloane Crosley
#30. I've been blessed, because the type I started in was competition based. It was about being witty and smart and innovative and different. I don't get backlash like some of the reality shows today because that's not who I am.
Eva Marcille
#31. Antitrust laws ought to be deployed, not against business, but to bust this two-party monopoly, which subverts competition in government and rewards the colluding quislings with sinecures in perpetuity.
Ilana Mercer
#32. I'm an ambitious person. I never consider myself in competition with anyone, and I'm not saying that from an arrogant standpoint, it's just that my journey started so, so long ago, and I'm still on it and I won't stand still.
Idris Elba
#33. Unlike 'other' religious belief systems in competition with Christianity, we have not been called to become 'absorbed' into the deity but rather brought into communion with God through union with Christ thereby maintaining our unique individuality and personal identity
R. Alan Woods
#34. Our position should not be on how to eliminate the competition at all expenses, but we should focus on what we're going to do in order to make sure that Americans turn to the road of prosperity with the trajectory of capitalism, because making a profit is not an evil.
Tim Scott
#35. It is not acceptable for customers in one member state to pay the price for a company to become a bigger player in other member states. The ruling shows that in these cases it is essential that companies propose adequate remedies in order to guarantee sufficient competition from other firms.
Neelie Kroes
#36. I am not in competition with anyone but myself. My goal is to improve myself continuously.
Bill Gates
#37. Thou shalt not covet; but tradition approves all forms of competition.
Arthur Hugh Clough
#38. I'm not really in any competition with anyone, I'm not in any race.
Cameron Diaz
#39. In science, as in business, there must be structures that ensure the well endowed do not use their position to block competition.
John Sulston
#40. Competition is a by-product of productive work, not its goal.
Ayn Rand
#41. This transformation of competition into monopoly is one of the most important - if not the most important - phenomena of modern capitalist economy,
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
#43. We should be leading, and we're not. We need to get serious about broadband, we need to get serious about competition, we need to get serious about our country.
Michael Copps
#44. It's not rage that drives me, it's competition.
Lennox Lewis
#45. I have a practice of really not talking about the competition. I'm from the old school.
Rush Limbaugh
#46. Life on earth is hard. Competition for the necessities of life is fierce. How ridiculous to believe that the law of harsh survival would not be true elsewhere, or that it would be negated by the progress of technology in an advanced civilization ...
Greg Bear
#47. Yes, there is something higher than happiness. Love is higher than happiness. Not only does love trump happiness, but in a competition between truth and love, love wins. We must strive for a love that does not bring distortions.
Eric Weiner
#48. You would always beat me; not so much because you are a better fighter as because you will not accept defeat.
John Christopher
#49. Everyone may want to be famous, everyone doesn't want to be patient. Fewest cross the bridge, fewer fall down the ladder and few get tired climbing the stairs. It's not about being famous then, it's winning a meaningless competition
Bhavik Sarkhedi
#50. Intelligence is not a competition," she said. "There is plenty to go around, and there are many ways it can be demonstrated.
Chris Colfer
#51. Is it not necessary for each to know for oneself what is the right means of livelihood? If we were avaricious, envious, seeking power, then our means of livelihood will correspond to our inward demands and so produce a world of competition, ruthlessness, oppression, ultimately ending in war.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#52. Fly fishing or any other sport fishing, is an end in itself and not a game or competition among fishermen ...
Ed Zern
#53. Competition is easier to accept if you realize it is not an act of oppression or abrasion-I've worked with my best friends in direct competition.
Diane Sawyer
#54. Never stretch your neck to see who is not doing it big. Look into your bosom, and realize that you can do it bigger! Go, create a brighter picture!
Israelmore Ayivor
#55. In 1982 when I showed up, the average age of the drivers in the series was something like 40, 41. The crowds were small. There was not much prize money. The competition wasn't very tight.
Bobby Rahal
#58. Death is what takes place within us when we look upon others not as gift, blessing, or stimulus but as threat, danger, competition.
Dorothee Solle
#59. Let's embrace productive capitalism, not casino capitalism, by restoring transparency and true competition in the commodities markets.
Maria Cantwell
#60. Politics means competition, especially in senior positions. If you don't know that, you're not especially suited to politics.
Wolfgang Schauble
#61. All my success seems to come straight away, and it's not until later that I get to appreciate it. Like with 'Popstars,' I won the competition, and now I look back and go, 'God, I was lucky to have number-one singles and albums.'
Sophie Monk
#62. Success in business means doing things better than rivals, not just doing things well.
Phil Rosenzweig
#63. I guess these days this is a politically charged statement, but it seems to me manifestly true: You make nothing alone. Human beings are not mere competitors, and human life is not merely competition. We are collaborators. To be human is to catch the falling person.
John Green
#64. Chief Justice [John] Roberts compared judges to umpires, who apply rules they did not write and cannot change to the competition before them.
Orrin Hatch
#65. We want to be first; not first if, not first but; but first!
John F. Kennedy
#66. You, and you alone, are the person who should take the measure of your own success ... I do not try to be better than anyone else. I only try to be better than myself.
Dan Jansen
#67. The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.
Thomas Hobbes
#68. Victory is in the quality of the competition, not just the final score.
Mike Marshall
#69. I love you," I murmured. "Love you more," he retorted. I stiffened. "This is not a competition." A grand declaration that I followed with, "But if it were, I'd win." Because my dad taught me how to cheat.
Eve Langlais
#70. Competition [in a scene] 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.
Michael Shurtleff
#71. There is not a lot of money in competition dancing. There never has been; it's all about winning the trophies, really. It's not like golf.
Anton Du Beke
#72. It's not really about the competition. Your biggest challenge in a race is yourself. You're often racing against time. You're frequently running everything through your mind. You're always competing against preconceived ideas. It's not really the person next to you that you worry about.
Summer Sanders
#73. Profit margins are probably the most mean-reverting series in finance, and if profit margins do not mean-revert, then something has gone badly wrong with capitalism. If high profits do not attract competition, there is something wrong with the system and it is not functioning properly.
Jeremy Grantham
#74. Golf is not my priority. I would hope people see me as a Christian man who loved his family, who loved being in the heat of competition and sometimes succeeded at it; who understood that golf was his job and that he was very lucky to play it for a living.
Zach Johnson
#75. I have been asked sometimes what led me to the Persian Gulf, what instinct told me that I could build up a business there. It's really perfectly simple. If you go to the hottest and most uncomfortable place on the map you'll find there's not a lot of competition;
Nevil Shute
#76. We shall wonder if one day our game is played on another planet? Why not? Then we will have not only a World Cup we will have inter-planetary competitions.
Sepp Blatter
#77. As a thinker, and most writers would consider themselves thinkers, your competition is not only the whole world, but it's also the people of the past, and the people of the future. And the people of the future are the dangerous ones, because you'll never know how good they are.
Jarod Kintz
#78. The US constitution's First Amendment rights only cover Americans, but I believe that in a democracy the competition of ideas and free speech should combat beliefs that it does not agree with - more speech and debate, not censorship.
Joichi Ito
#79. If you're not a big club, you choose one competition and you fight in that competition and forget the others. Big clubs - we cannot do this
Jose Mourinho
#80. Maybe creatures that are not like each other are supposed to hurt each other to find out which one is stronger, so that the stronger one can take the things it wants. A competition. A game. War! Sex! Football!
Isaac Marion
#81. the prudent business mind must not only think of competing with the prevailing giants in the market but must also not be oblivious of the latent deft of the masses who are yet to dare
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#82. Our philosophy has been to be fiscally conservative, so we can be operationally aggressive. We're not using borrowed money to grow. So we'll put up a store just to get there before the competition. If it doesn't work, we'll close it and lose a little equity. It won't kill us.
Wayne Huizenga
#83. The key here is not to pursue pricing against the competition within an industry but rather to pursue pricing against substitutes and alternatives across industries and nonindustries.
W.Chan Kim
#84. I've run a lot of miles over the years, some fast and some not so fast. I've won some big races and I've had some big disappointments, but I enjoy the freedom of running and the challenge of training and competition as much now as when I first started back in high school.
Alberto Salazar
#85. I think it is one of the fundamentals, not only of the European Union but also of free trade, that competition is fair.
Margrethe Vestager
#86. 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.
Michael Porter
#87. The biggest competition is myself. I am not looking to follow others or pull them down. I'm planning to test my own boundaries.
Rain
#89. Moderation is based on the idea that things do not fit neatly together. Politics is likely to be a competition between legitimate opposing interests. Philosophy is likely to be a tension between competing half truths. A personality is likely to be a battleground of valuable but incompatible traits.
David Brooks
#90. Idealistic as it may sound, altruism should be the driving force in business, not just competition and a desire for wealth.
Dalai Lama XIV
#91. Music is not a contest, it's not a competition, so giving out trophies seems a little bit like the sporting world I left behind when I was a kid.
Dave Pirner
#92. When you have competing companies that are engaging in the raising of prices in lock step with each other, you have to question whether or not this in coincidence or price fixing. With the merger of Exxon and Mobil and Chevron and Texaco, we have very little competition among the energy companies.
Jeanine Pirro
#93. It is not important how many competitions you have attended, it only matters how many you have won.
M.F. Moonzajer
#94. Competition in armament, both land and naval, is not only a terrible burden upon the people, but I believe it to be one of the greatest menaces to the peace of the world.
Frank B. Kellogg
#95. The smart way to improve broadband is not to junk the existing network but to make the most of it. It's to let a competitive market deliver the speeds that people need at an affordable price with government improving infrastructure in the areas where market competition won't deliver it.
Tony Abbott
#97. Call me or I'll call you, but one of us will call, yes? What I mean is it's not a competition. You don't lose I you phone first.
David Nicholls
#98. My first competition, I guess, singing-wise, I was six years old, and there's a video of it, too. I'm just, like, stick straight. I'm not moving at all, and I'm just singing.
Tori Kelly
#99. The music as a whole is selfish, but the musicians aren't," "The song may go on forever but it's not about competition within the band; it's about playing as a band.
Joshua Homme
#100. Don't fear sharing your best ideas online: 1) Competition already knows what you are up to 2) People like leaders not followers.
David Meerman Scott
