Quotes About Being Number Two

#1. It's my job for Oracle, the number two software company in the world; to become the number one software company in the world. My job is to build better than the competition, sell those products in the marketplace and eventually supplant Microsoft and move from being number two to number one.

Larry Ellison

#2. I want a partner in crime and a Bonnie to my Clyde. I've just been so focused on my career. Women don't like being number two, so I've been glad to keep my distance so I could focus on me, get my life together and take care of my mom without disappointing the woman I love.

Shemar Moore

#3. There is always competition. Whatever you do, there will be competition, and you have to decide how you're going to play. For me, I had to be the very best. I had to be the very best. Because, if I was not the very best, I would end up being number two.

Debbi Fields

#4. It's not easy being number two. As a marketer, you have limited choices - you can pretend you're not defined by the market leader, or, you can embrace your position and go directly after your nemesis.

John Battelle

#5. I don't think there's anybody in America who thinks my personality is best suited to being Number Two.

Chris Christie

#6. Being Number Two Sucks.

Andre Agassi

#7. What's wrong with being number two?

Morrie Schwartz.

#8. I think Dwight loves being number two. I don't think he has any desire to be number one. He wants to be number two no matter where he goes. It's like Avis. 'We try harder.' That's Dwight.

Rainn Wilson

#9. I'm a hoax, a dying boy who's grown wings.

Maria Dahvana Headley

#10. We were failures, all of us. We told him we had our reasons for the way things had turned out, but he didn't want to hear it. Told us that nothing consumed a man's soul more than the easy excuse.

William Lashner

#11. I am the number one human being in music. That means any person that's living or breathing is number two.

Kanye West

#12. The rest pay an annual tax for this outside garment of all, become indispensable summer and winter, which would buy a village of Indian wigwams, but now helps to keep them poor as long as they live.

Henry David Thoreau

#13. I'm in complete remission. I'm alive and well.

Gene Wilder

#14. It was my bad luck (considering Lee's moral code was a bit sketchy) that I fell into Liam Nightingale's Ethical Rule Book at Rule Number Two (with Rule Number One being "Thou shalt not nail your brother's girlfriend"), I was "Thou shalt not nail your little sister's best friend.

Kristen Ashley

#15. The problem with 'the crown jewel of Chinese literature' [Dream of the Red Chamber] is that it has two thousand pages and an equal number of characters, and the hero is an effeminate ass who should have either been spanked or decapitated, both ends being equally objectionable.

Barry Hughart

#16. My business is only to keep myself in motion, whilst motion pleases me; I only walk for the walk's sake.

Michel De Montaigne

#17. You don't have to fight against being placed in a box any more than the number two has to fight against being the number three. I mean, two is not going to be the number three, ever.

Michael Nesmith

#18. The simple fact that the Christian fellowship, founded on belief in Jesus' resurrection, came into existence and flourished in the very city where he was executed and buried is powerful evidence for the historicity of the empty tomb.

William Lane Craig

#19. A job is a sacrifice. Following an interest - that's a contribution. And we're here on the planet, not to sacrifice ourselves, but to make a contribution.

Robert Holden

#20. The definition of Brevity: That which people believe would be a virtue - in me!

Greg Curtis

#21. The evening laid its cool palm against his weary brow as if feeling for a temperature.

Michael Chabon

#22. The real principle is that between is used for a relationship of an individual to any number of other individuals, as long as they are being considered two at a time, whereas among is used for a relationship of an individual to an amorphous mass or collectivity.

Steven Pinker

#23. Number Two's eyes narrowed and became what are known in the Shouting and Killing People trade as cold slits, the idea presumably being to give your opponent the impression that you have lost your glasses or are having difficulty keeping awake. Why this is frightening is an, as yet, unsolved problem.

Douglas Adams

#24. The American Club was for those who preferred to have dinner at six and brunch on a Sunday and avoid the stress of dealing with Greeks and their language.

John Mole

#25. I believe being a good senator requires two things. Number one, acumen. Number two, interest.

Trey Gowdy

#26. To two men living the same number of years, the world always provides the same sum of experiences. It is up to us to be conscious of them. Being aware of one's life, one's revolt, one's freedom, and to the maximum, is living, and to the maximum.

Albert Camus

#27. You don't have to worry about being a number one, number two, or number three. Numbers don't have anything to do with placement. Numbers only have something to do with repetition.

Ornette Coleman

#28. You talk about the Pro-Life movement being one of the great shames of our nation. I think, if you want number two, I think - I think it's that. I think it's absolute - it's a travesty that people have forced someone who is gay to make their case that they deserve the same basic rights.

Jon Stewart

#29. My mom is two people to me. She's my mom number one, and then she's this lady most comedians know as being a legendary owner of a nightclub that's responsible for starting a lot of heavy careers.

Pauly Shore

#30. Once upon a time, a girl lived in a sandcastle, making monsters to send through a hole in the sky.

Laini Taylor

#31. If it's lawful to have a rifle club to kill pheasants, it should be just as lawful to have one to kill wolves or dogs that are being sicked on little black babies. In fact, it's constitutional. Article Number Two of the constitution guarantees the right of every citizen to own a rifle or a shot gun.

Malcolm X

#32. Mind you, I would not want the pressure of being number one in the world just two years before a World Cup. There is only one way to go and it is not up.

David Campese

#33. There're rules to being the side chick. Rule number one: you're number two.

J. B. Smoove