Own Competition Quotes

#1. Take time to define your own goals and stay focused on achieving them. You're your own competition.

K.J. Kilton

#2. Don't work harder than your competition, be your own competition.

Behdad Sami

#3. Competition is overrated. In practice it is quite destructive and should be avoided wherever possible. Much better than fighting for scraps in existing markets is to create and own new ones.

Peter Thiel

#4. Law of the Minimum: "The worst potential competition for any organism can come from its own kind. The species consumes necessities. Growth is limited by that necessity which is present in the least amount. The least favourable condition controls the rate of growth."

Frank Herbert

#5. We expect a horse race, ... The reality is that competition drives all innovation. Intel did nothing with its 386 chip for five years until AMD introduced its own version in 1991.

Lou Dobbs

#6. You do a period of go-karting until you're at the age of qualifying for a ride in a 'school-kart,' then you qualify for driving school. And several of the driving schools have a competition series for their own students.

Mario Andretti

#7. By the data to date, there is only one animal in the Galaxy dangerous to man
man himself. So he must supply his own indispensable competition. He has no enemy to help him.

Robert A. Heinlein

#8. 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

#9. On the light side everyone thinks they are the most important, that their own understandings, or their group's understandings, are the key. There's a diversity of cultures and opinions, so there is competition, diffusion, and no single focus.

Carlos Barrios

#10. I believe and support the feminist movement, but I am not generally interested in considering women's rights in relation to equality with men, or in a competition with men, but rather within their own rights and feminine space.

Shirin Neshat

#11. Lawyer and technology writer Richard Koman, argued that Google has become a true believer in its own goodness, a belief which justifies its own set of rules regarding corporate ethics, anti-competition, customer service and its place in society.

Nicholas Carr

#12. I feel comfortable around every driver out there and each driver is in charge of their own car, but you feel very secure racing the competition out there.

Kurt Busch

#13. I think it was when I was 12 when I entered a singing competition. I sang my own original song for an audience of 1,000 people.

Birdy

#14. In Milwaukee last month a man died laughing over one of his own jokes. That's what makes it so tough for us outsiders. We have to fight home competition.

Robert Benchley

#15. In spite of really intense competition for the job, I'm still my own worst enemy.

Tom Holt

#16. Competition for the future is competition to create and dominate emerging opportunities-to stake out new competitive space. Creating the future is more challenging than playing catch up, in that you have to create your own roadmap.

Gary Hamel

#17. Set higher standards for your own performance than anyone else around you, and your only competition will be with yourself

Rick Pitino

#18. The problem with competition is that it takes away the requirement to set your own path, to invent your own method, to find a new way.

Seth Godin

#19. If you allow for a purely capitalistic society, without any type of regulation at all, you will get one monopoly that will eat all of the smaller fish and own everything, and then you'll have zero capitalism, zero competition - it would just be one giant company.

Serj Tankian

#20. 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

#21. 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?

Rumi

#22. Every guild and trade has its own ... private patriotism, which makes it resent all rebellion from within and all competition or criticism from without ... Vested Interests. The manufacture of optical glass ...

Aldous Huxley

#23. I feel like my biggest competition is myself. A lot of kids get caught up in the comparing game - comparing themselves with Michael Jackson, comparing themselves with Michael Jordan. You gotta be your best. You gotta overcome your own fears.

Romeo Miller

#24. He hardest obstacle for me has been to find a father. I am the product of three fathers, and my connection to each of them has left me wanting. Each have their own strengths and weaknesses, but I've always been in competition with them in some way.

Damon Runyon

#25. I don't think writers compete, I think they're all doing separate things in their own style.

Elmore Leonard

#26. Honestly, we'll compete with everybody. I love competition. As long as people invent their own stuff, I love competition.

Tim Cook

#27. Many writers are paralyzed by the thought that they are competing with everybody else who is trying to write and presumably doing it better ... Forget the competition and go at your own pace. Your only contest is with yourself.

William Zinsser

#28. It was important that I learn that what I wanted was no different from what other artists wanted: confidence that I could be my own censor, audience, and competition.

Beverly Pepper

#29. The reason why men who mind their own business succeed is that they have so little competition.

Evan Esar

#30. In our offices and places of work we love to tell others what to do.We denigrate them.We compare their work unfavourably with our own.We are always in competition.We show off and gossip.Our dream is of being well treated and we dream of treating others badly ...

Hanif Kureishi

#31. But by shining these lights in different places, they really have uncovered things that companies in their own interest are trying to clean up. We're not going to get rid of the realities of global competition. But these companies, like Nike or Gap, have global brands that they want to protect.

Pietra Rivoli

#32. All you now do is pursue your private objectives within society. Instead of us being a community, everybody is asked to seek their own personal ends. It's called competition. And competition is antagonism.

Edward Bond

#33. Honestly, I wish I'd known just how hard it is and how competitive the acting world is. I took my time; I went at my own pace. That's been helpful over the years, but also, I didn't quite realize how incredible everyone else was going to be: the level of competition and everyone's skill.

Max Von Essen

#34. The biggest challenge in business is not the competition, it's what goes on inside your own head

Barbara Corcoran

#35. Set higher standards for you own performance than anyone around you, and it won't matter whether you have a tough boss or an easy one. It won't matter whether the competition is pushing you hard, because you'll be competing with yourself.

Rick Pitino

#36. They will come to learn in the end, at their own expense, that it is better to endure competition for rich customers than to be invested with monopoly over impoverished customers.

Frederic Bastiat

#37. Concentrate on your strength and strongly build your strength whilst others concentrate on your weakness! When your strength is strong enough, you shall surely put them to shame with your strength, and they shall surely see their own weakness better!.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#38. Our attainments [in space] are a major element in the competition between the Soviet system and our own ... in this sense, [they] are part of the battle along the fluid front of the cold war.

James E. Webb

#39. Whereas a competitive firm must sell at the market price, a monopoly owns its market, so it can set its own prices. Since it has no competition, it produces at the quantity and price combination that maximizes its profits.

Peter Thiel

#40. If Islamic countries can't come up with their own principles for women's competition," she said in one widely reported speech, "then the way dictated by Western oppressing countries will be imposed on us." Iran

Geraldine Brooks

#41. It's my experience that people rise to the level of their own expectations and of the competition they seek out.

Pat Summitt

#42. The reality is, is that we love competition, at Apple. We think it makes us all better. But we want people to invent their own stuff.

Tim Cook

#43. At a career peak, there is certainly the specter of competition from below, but just as importantly, there's the risk that if we aren't on a curve that satisfies us emotionally, we may be the cause of our own undoing.

Whitney Johnson

#44. our common humanity made it possible to find common cause in the midst of competition and that peace depended on our own virtue and ethical behavior.

Jeffrey D. Sachs

#45. Competition was as much as respecting your opponent's work as introspecting on your own.

Faraaz Kazi

#46. The only problem I had on The Voice, was wishing that we, as artists, could have had a stronger opinion in our own song choices. At the end of the day, it's still a vocal competition show and you want to sing the song that showcases your voice the best.

Curtis Grimes

#47. A favorite Wired icon for the information feedback loop, a dragon curling in a circle to swallow its own tail, could become more apt as a symbol of the timeless libertarian paradox: Monopoly verging on feudalism emerges from unregulated competition to bite libertarianism in the posterior.

Jedediah Purdy

#48. I started classical and operatic lessons when I was 8 and become an operatic singer and went to competition. I write my own music. A lot of the songs, growing up, I was into writing dark stories and poems, and one day I started putting melodies to them.

Cassie Steele

#49. [A]ny species that exempts itself from the rules of competition ends up destroying the community in order to support its own expansion.

Daniel Quinn

#50. 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.

Rumi

#51. The Jews supplied the contacts for international trade, sometimes in competition to the Venetians, the word Ghetto itself comes from the Venetians, it was an Island in the Venice lagoon, and they had their own part of Corfu town,

Maurice Price

#52. They need policies and visions that speak to their own interests and circumstances and not to be reduced to data points in some abstract political competition.

Ken Robinson

#53. For me, competition is good; that is what keeps me on my toes and keeps me going. I am always trying to better my own work, do better than my earlier films ... do films that are challenging and exciting for me.

Deepika Padukone

#54. Competition will always place your life in the hands of others, while initiative gives you the freedom to choose your own destiny ...

Og Mandino

#55. No, there's not much competition between puppeteers in general because everybody's working their own style.

Jim Henson

#56. When I first started playing team sports, I was a little too sweet for my own good. I'd be in tears because I wasn't doing well. But the healthy competition really toughened me up.

Marisa Miller

#57. The only competition you will ever face is with your own ignorance.

Bob Proctor

#58. You never compete with the people in your crew; you have your own team. Competition is only with those people whose film is releasing alongside on Friday and never with one's own team.

Emraan Hashmi