Quotes About Competition

#1. One must rather ask how much could be produced if competition among producers were abolished.

Ludwig Von Mises

#2. Take the competition seriously, but not yourself.

Richard Branson

#3. With all the mass media concentrated in a few hands, the ancient faith in the competition of ideas in the free market seems like a hollow echo of a much simpler day.

Kingman Brewster Jr.

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

Janet Jackson

#5. Prostitutes are the inevitable product of a society that places ultimate importance on money, possessions, and competition.

Jane Fonda

#6. There is no need of any competition with anybody. U R yourself, and as U R, U R perfectly good. Accept urself

Osho

#7. If you focus on your competition, you will never deliver anything truly innovative.

Eric Schmidt

#8. Seek out strategic alliances; they are essential to growth and provide resistance to bigger competition.

Richard Branson

#9. Master Li turned bright red while he scorched the air with the Sixty Sequential Sacrileges with which he had won the all-China Freestyle Blasphemy Competition in Hangchow three years in a row.

Barry Hughart

#10. Workers, black and white, need some kind of international affirmative action to protect them from unfair competition with unorganized or slave labor abroad and unfair competition with robots at home.

Jesse Jackson

#11. Our work activities are perhaps most interesting when the element of competition is present.

Ralph Alfred Habas

#12. People say, 'Weren't you deprived of your childhood?' No way. I would not take anything back at all. Everything about it was great. I got to go places, meet people, play baseball against older kids and better competition. I had a great time.

Bryce Harper

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

Sam Walton

#14. I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of young writers, people in all media, want to be famous but they don't really want to do anything. I can't think of anything less worth striving for than fame.

Zadie Smith

#15. In America, when you bring an idea to market, you usually have several months before competition pops up, allowing you to capture significant market share. In China, you can have hundreds of competitors within the first hours of going live. Ideas are not important in China - execution is.

Ma Huateng

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

Roger Waters

#17. Pakistan tries mentally challenged girl of blasphemy against the Holy Book. India arrests kids for posts on Facebook. Morbid competition?

Kabir Bedi

#18. The Champions League is a big ambition, and all the footballers want to play in it; it is a very important competition.

Fernando Torres

#19. When the sommelier Enrico Bernardo moved to Paris from Italy nearly two decades ago, the world of French gastronomy brutally rejected him. No matter that he had won the competition for best sommelier in Italy; when he asked 30 restaurateurs for work in their wine cellars, all turned him down.

Elaine Sciolino

#20. It's not about winning or losing a competition, it's about beating the doubt from within yourself and knowing at the end of each day you are one step closer to your goals.

Jonathan Horton

#21. I've been playing against older and stronger competition my whole life. It has made me a better tennis player and able to play against this kind of level despite their strength and experience.

Maria Sharapova

#22. I have been in competitions for commissions. I've won most and lost some. Mostly, I've won.

Robert Barry

#23. Karna gave a mirthless smile and replied evenly,'What is the use of a competition if one cannot be compared with others? Talk is the weapon of the weak; release your arrows instead of hollow words.

Kavita Kane

#24. Small groups of persons can, and do, make the rest of us think what they please about a given subject. But there are usually proponents and opponents of every propaganda, both of whom are equally eager to convince the majority.

Edward Bernays

#25. The Sochi Games is not only my second Olympics, but the 'retirement stage' for me, so I want to have a greater experience than any other competition before. In the past, I had strong concepts for short programs and lyrical ones for the long. But this time, it's the other way around.

Kim Yuna

#26. Cooperation is a higher moral principle than competition.

Bryant McGill

#27. Arguing that the only problem with a free market is lack of competition, is like arguing that that the only problem with prostitution is that there aren't enough pimps.

Quentin R. Bufogle

#28. The Constitution never even mentions political parties, let alone the Republican and Democratic parties, yet all the election laws help to protect them from competition.

Bob Barr

#29. I'm not in a competition with any other artist, anything that's goin' on - I'm strictly competing with myself.

Joe Budden

#30. There are lots of good reasons to abandon a project. Having a little competition is not one of them.

Seth Godin

#31. In the end, the market will decide which is the better performer: dirty coal-fired power or clean wind and solar. Market-based competition. That doesn't sound like communism to me.

Frances Beinecke

#32. I always try and tell dudes that are younger than me is that because of the Internet everyone can just be by themselves doing something, but the importance of a group is being able to have some sort of competition.

Earl Sweatshirt

#33. There's enough pressure in life without seeking competition. That makes it double pressure.

Frank Bruno

#34. Fear of men's judgment manifests itself in competition for men's approval.

Ezra Taft Benson

#35. It's a difficult competition against silence, because silence is a perfect language, the only language which says with no words.

Eduardo Galeano

#36. He had a simple maxim for all competitive or adversarial situations: work out what the other party least wants you to do, and then do it. Relieving your feelings was fun, but the best course of action was to make things as difficult as possible for the person trying to make things difficult for you.

John Lanchester

#37. He's a good-looking sap, and he knows it. He's just exactly smart enough to know that he can only be important in a place where he has no competition.

Adriana Trigiani

#38. Everything around a writer, or musician in the record business, probably everything in all the United States or in all of western civilization, is about competition.

T Bone Burnett

#39. When we are in competition with ourselves, and match our todays against our yesterdays, we derive encouragement from past misfortunes and blemishes. Moreover, the competition with ourselves leaves unimpaired our benevolence toward our fellow men.

Eric Hoffer

#40. On the square ... I'm not riffin' like Andy Griffith,
Just fed up, goin' head up, with competition.

Positive K

#41. Talk to your customers. Find out what they need. Don't pay any attention to the competition. They're not relevant to you.

Joel Spolsky

#42. I am drawn to women who are independent and creative, which is problematic because it's a struggle, a competition of careers. There's jealousy.

Marilyn Manson

#43. There's an ongoing competition by global companies across all areas from products, technology development and hiring talented people to patent disputes. The market is big and opportunities are wide open, so we should find out new businesses that Samsung's future will hinge on.

Lee Kun-hee

#44. The successful companies try to keep the new entrants down. Now that's great for a company like ours. We make more money that way because we have less competition and less innovation. But for the country as a whole, it's horrible.

Charles Koch

#45. If you do things with a certain type of result and cause a certain type of reaction or effect, then you increase your market value. It's very much a competition for the entertainment dollar, and that's never been more clearly evident than in today's NBA game.

Julius Erving

#46. I could feel the tears streaming down my face - in some kind of frenzied competition with the rain. At first, I tried to brush the tears away, but I finally let them take their course, unabated.

Matt Abrams

#47. Having always observed that public works are much less advantageously managed than the same are by private hands, I have thought it better for the public to go to market for whatever it wants which is to be found there; for there competition brings it down to the minimum value.

Thomas Jefferson

#48. I like to compete. I think competition brings out the best in anybody.

Charles Tillman

#49. I know a lot of people think of me and they like, oh that girl is really sexy, that girl is really put together, she would never do something as unladylike as a beet eating competition.

Mindy Kaling

#50. Like nature itself, modern economic life is driven by relentless competition and unbridled selfishness. Or is it?

Paul J. Zak

#51. The larger the state, the more callous it becomes ... the colder its heart. It is also true that the bigger the corporation, the more callous its heart. But unlike the state, corporations have competition and have no police powers.

Dennis Prager

#52. There is a period of tapering when we're not in the gym quite as long to try to save our bodies, but leading up to the competition we try to keep things similar to the rest of the year.

Jonathan Horton

#53. We saw a hole in the Chicago poetry scene that slam couldn't fill. I think a lot more can be done with the form than just competition.

Robbie Q. Telfer

#54. Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

Bertrand Russell

#55. I don't want to be in competition with anyone. I'm friends with women I work with and I applaud any success they have in their careers. And I'm not just saying that because it sounds good, I genuinely want people to do well and have success.

Charissa Thompson

#56. Mark Twain was so good with crowds that he became, in competition with singers and dancers and actors and acrobats, one of the most popular performers of his time. It is so unusual, and so psychologically unlikely, too, for a great writer to be a great performer, too ...

Kurt Vonnegut

#57. The rap game will never be at peace. The rap game is built upon competition. There will always be competition and as long as there's competition, there will never be peace. There's a heavy competition in every scene. Everyone wants to be the one.

Kurupt

#58. In the long run, your human capital is your main base of competition. Your leading indicator of where you're going to be 20 years from now is how well you're doing in your education system.

Bill Gates

#59. The idea of competition, particularly in a creative atmosphere, is always there. And, if you don't acknowledge that, you are doing yourself and the process a disservice.

Jake Gyllenhaal

#60. Many of us in the West have come to feel that the development of technology in the military and economic fields has produced a single world in which the central problems, both military and economic, are going to require co-operation rather than continued confrontation and competition.

Denis Healey

#61. 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.

Hedy Lamarr

#62. Companies that solely focus on competition will ultimately die. Those that focus on value creation will thrive.

Edward De Bono

#63. The marathon is a charismatic event. It has everything. It has drama. It has competition. Every jogger can't dream of being an Olympic champion, but he can dream of finishing a marathon.

Fred Lebow

#64. That this is not a sense of innovation and competition increasing prices because some other company is coming in and competing with Martin Shkreli. This is literally a monopoly.

Joy-Ann Reid

#65. I think my mom and dad did a great job with that, because we [with brother] never had any competition in baseball. We always tried to help each other.

Bengie Molina

#66. Money and ownership alone aren't enough. Set high goals, encourage competition, and then keep score.

Sam Walton

#67. Your excellence is what will leave your competition clueless.
Your uniqueness is what will leave your competition speechless.
Your brilliance is what will leave your competition breathless.
Your transcendence is what will leave your competition lifeless.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#68. There is more competition to achieve a job, but very less competition to achieve the glory.

Amit Kalantri

#69. Competition and rivalry between the members of a group are the antithesis of the cooperation and team play needed in an effective management group. This is why team building is an empty abstraction for a group whose leader controls with power.

Thomas Gordon

#70. Internal competition has the direct effect of making coaching difficult or impossible.

Tom DeMarco

#71. Sympathetic joy is a practice. It takes time and effort to free ourselves of the scarcity story that most of us have learned along the way, the idea that happiness is a competition, and that someone else is grabbing all the joy.

Sharon Salzberg

#72. If you can master the opening, you will be leaps and bounds ahead of the competition.

Darynda Jones

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

Andrew Carnegie

#74. I am happy I have competition. It keeps me on my toes all the while and stops me from becoming complacent. So, it works to my advantage.

Ameesha Patel

#75. Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. - It is not fair. - He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of other people's mouths. - I do not like him, and do not mean to like Waverley if I can help it - but fear I must.

Jane Austen

#76. Law is made by the winner to preserve victory over the loser.

Toba Beta

#77. 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

#78. That competition and the struggle for existence is the mechanism behind this state of perpetual change.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#79. We were in the market ahead of competition. We brought new products on the market ahead of competition. We rolled out our networks. We begged, borrowed, stole, put things out. And while they were never near perfect, they were first. And that gave us, to my mind, a lot of advantage.

Sunil Mittal

#80. 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

#81. When you compete, you gain more than you lose, even when you lose.

Aaron Lauritsen

#82. Competition's always been a product of American lifestyle

Tavis Smiley

#83. As humans, we have evolved to compete ... it is in our genes, and we love to watch a competition.

Peter Diamandis

#84. political life came to be dominated by a pattern of interest-group politics that the era's political scientists came to call "pluralist," a form of democracy marked more by competition among organizations and lobbyists than by a sense of the public interest.

Ira Katznelson

#85. In America, what makes us so successful is the innovation, the competition, the focus on merit.

Joel Klein

#86. I think the common elements first are that, basically, we are entering markets or in markets that are deregulating or have recently deregulated, and so they have become competitive, moving from monopoly franchise-type businesses to competitive, market-oriented businesses.

Bill Vaughan

#87. Since this craving (for material possessions) is in the nature of competition, it only brings happiness when we outdistance a rival, to whom it brings correlative pain.

Bertrand Russell

#88. Wealth comes from successful individual efforts to please one's fellow man ... that's what competition is all about: "outpleasing" your competitors to win over the consumers.

Walter E. Williams

#89. The time has come for the American government to recognize the damage that has occurred to our economy, and to take firm action to curtail what I believe is both unfair and illegal foreign competition.

Norm Dicks

#90. The pinnacle of human consciousness must be the rejection of unhealthy competition, war and violence.

Bryant McGill

#91. I think there was a lot competition in the rock scene.

Jonathan Davis

#92. 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.

Steve Jobs

#93. Take life step by step, pace by pace, slowly slowly, and leave the competition to others.

Eddie Redmayne

#94. In a dynamic democratic society it is indeed difficult to keep in harness the forces of competition.

George W. Stocking

#95. Some of us stay married because we're in competition with our divorcing 1960s and 1970s parents, who made such a hash of it. What looks appealing to us now, in an increasingly frenetic, digital world, is the 1950s marriage.

Sandra Tsing Loh

#96. Markets do not automatically generate trust, cooperation or collective action for the common good. Quite the contrary: it is in the nature of economic competition that a participant who breaks the rules will triumph - at least in the short run - over more ethically sensitive competitors.

Tony Judt

#97. I am not in competition with my peers; I am in competition with myself.

Don Dokken

#98. I think the difficult thing is the transition between TV competition series and going into the actual music industry. There still seems to be a slight disconnect there.

Adam Lambert

#99. Competition should not be for a share of the market-but to expand the market.

W. Edwards Deming

#100. If you have to remind yourself to concentrate during competition, you've got no chance to concentrate.

Bobby Nichols