Top 100 Quotes About Competition
#1. I think it's good to have competition. Now we have a third country that can launch astronauts, so it's good for all of us. It makes us a little bit more competitive and wanting to be the leader.
Leroy Chiao
#2. When I first started acting, somebody once said to me that anything that is a problem that prevents you from getting a job will eventually be a strength. It works both ways. The odder you are, the harder it is to get work, but once you sort of establish it, you have no competition.
Tom Noonan
#3. Americans mythologized competition and credit it with saving us from socialist bread lines.
Peter Thiel
#4. I didn't want to become an actress because the competition with my mother would have been to much to live up to.
Isabella Rossellini
#5. But anybody who steps into the lane beside you is the biggest competition because they made it to the finals.
Usain Bolt
#6. The whole competition thing disturbs me. Not that I wasn't a part of it when I first started.
George Murray
#7. Christ's Kingdom is always intended to be a co-op and never a competition.
Lisa-Jo Baker
#8. This dream that men shall cease to waste strength in competition and shall come to pool their powers of production is coming to pass all over the earth.
Jane Addams
#9. 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
#10. Freedom requires that government keep the channels of competition and opportunity open, prevent monopolies, economic abuse and domination.
Herbert Hoover
#11. Today's leading real-world retailer, Wal-Mart, uses software to power its logistics and distribution capabilities, which it has used to crush its competition.
Marc Andreessen
#12. At the center of a man's purpose rests the hunger for competition, war, chaos, and calmness. You take it away, there is nothing but a self-reflection of stagnation for him.
Lionel Suggs
#13. If you have 50 different plug types, appliances wouldn't be available and would be very expensive. But once an electric outlet becomes standardized, many companies can design appliances, and competition ensues, creating variety and better prices for consumers.
Bill Gates
#14. Honestly, I don't know enough about what's a good timeslot and what isn't. Either you have a timeslot where nobody is really tuning in, which isn't good, or you're in a good hour, and then you've got a lot of competition.
Jason Katims
#15. I believe that there is a whole set of issues in the world - environment, proliferation, energy, cyberspace - that can only be dealt with on a global basis. The traditional patterns of national rivalry and national competition are not suitable for those cases.
Henry A. Kissinger
#16. There is a consensus of willing leaders from both parties coalescing around the right way forward in health care. Reform should address government-imposed inequities and barriers to true choice and competition.
Paul Ryan
#17. The Olympics are always a special competition, it is very difficult to predict what will happen.
Sergei Bubka
#18. We have bought unconditionally the economists' line that competition and innovation would solve all problems, and that we would finally accomplish a technological end-run around biological reality and the human condition.
Wendell Berry
#19. The competition has improved tremendously. In 2003, I could teach a guy how to play poker in an hour and he could win some money. Today, it would take days. The game has gotten so much tougher. So I will spend my time with my family and play when I can.
Chris Moneymaker
#20. Competitions make me nervous. When I go out on the ice, I just think about my skating and not, 'I have to do this to win.' I forget it is a competition.
Katarina Witt
#21. If we continue to think and live as if we belong only to different cultures and different religions, with separate missions and goals, we will always be in self-defeating competition with each other. Once we realize we are all members of humanity, we will want to compete in the spirit of love.
Muhammad Ali
#22. If we want to be free [get liberated], don't compete. As long as there is competition, the other person will hide his faults and we will hide ours.
Dada Bhagwan
#23. 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
#24. Well, nine times out of ten when you have 2 or 3 stars in a household you have an unfortunate amount of competition that's not necessarily a healthy competition.
Edwin Starr
#25. The stadiums are like none I've ever seen. I think there must have been some strong competition nationally between Korea and Japan to make the best facilities because they are very well designed.
Lamar Hunt
#26. Sisterhood is powerful. Woman can support each other as women, in their pursuit for enlightenment or anything else, without fear. But as long as she's still in the commodities exchange market, buying and selling, she must fear the competition.
Frederick Lenz
#27. Like patents - which also seek to protect the little guy - unions were started for all the right reasons. But like patents, they can be twisted into something that hurts innovation, competition, and ultimately consumers and the country as a whole.
Sarah Lacy
#28. I really feel like if everyone listened to their angels the world which shift. We wouldn't see any kind of greed or competition - it would really be the world of kindness .
Doreen Virtue
#29. To achieve sustained high returns on capital requires possessing features that protect returns from competition; namely, competitive advantages. Identifying what these competitive advantages are and understanding their sustainability is an essential part of the quality investment process.
Lawrence A. Cunningham
#30. Women are always told, 'You're not going to make it, its too difficult, you can't do that, don't enter this competition, you'll never win it,' - they need confidence in themselves and people around them to help them to get on.
Zaha Hadid
#31. Competition is such a virtue, and everybody's so busy competing, they have no time for compassion.
Major Owens
#32. 'Perfect competition' is considered both the ideal and the default state in Economics 101. So-called perfectly competitive markets achieve equilibrium when producer supply meets consumer demand.
Peter Thiel
#33. Our government needs to adopt a pro-market agenda that doesn't pick winners and losers, but it invites competition and it levels the playing field for everyone.
Sarah Palin
#34. Our competition for American business is no longer in the next county or the next state, it's around the world.
Karl Rove
#35. Competition is all about you. It's about feeding your selfish needs. It feeds the depravity of your heart.
David Boudia
#36. In Europe, architects consider themselves artists. They think they're special when they win a competition.
Helmut Jahn
#37. Airlines go in the long run at the competition to reason. For the passenger the competition is good, because each competitor tries to undercut the other one.
Niki Lauda
#39. So many times people are afraid of competition, when it should bring out the best in us. We all have talents and abilities, so why be intimidated by other people's skills?
Lou Holtz
#40. Dominant companies have a special responsibility to ensure that the way they do business doesn't prevent competition ... and does not harm consumers and innovation.
Mario Monti
#41. Creativity may well be the last legal unfair competitive advantage we can take to run over the competition.
David Trott
#42. Many small businesses are doomed from day one, not from competition or the economy, but from the ignorance of their owners ... their destiny is already decided because they have no idea how a business should be operated.
William Manchee
#43. I sometimes wonder what would've happened if I'd entered the competition instead - I'd probably have come nowhere and given up on the whole fiction game.
Paul Kane
#44. I was kind of a little disappointed when they started building a competition between Marty (Martin Scorsese) and me. I have the greatest respect for him and all the films he's done over the years.
Clint Eastwood
#45. Practice like it's competition and compete like it's another day on the practice court.
Karch Kiraly
#46. There is no such thing as "healthy" competition within a knowledge organization; all internal competition is destructive. The nature of our work is that it cannot be done by any single person in isolation. Knowledge work is by definition collaborative.
Tom DeMarco
#47. Eyeing me playfully, he tossed a rock back and forth between his hands. Was that an accident, or do you have a wet t-shirt competition you need me to get you ready for?
Devon Ashley
#48. When healthy competition prevails
you come out to play and you play to win.
Lorii Myers
#49. Wouldn't it be wonderful if I won a helicopter in a crossword puzzle competition? There is not much hope though I am afraid, as they never give such practical prizes.
Leonora Carrington
#50. Protectionism, socialism, all varieties of state favoritism and restrictions on competition, and the growth of bureaucracy and jobbery were the means by which special interests sought to exploit the public, the great mass of consumers and taxpayers.
Ralph Raico
#51. I did not think so at first. But the US is so incredibly dependent on oil, that they wanted to secure oil in case competition on the world market becomes too hard.
Hans Blix
#52. To create conditions in which competition will be as effective as possible, to prevent fraud and deception, to break up monopolies- these tasks provide a wide and unquestioned field for state activity.
Friedrich August Von Hayek
#53. At present we live to impede each other's satisfactions; competition, domestic life, society, what is it all but this?
Florence Nightingale
#54. I'm not at all snobby about book prizes and how they pollute the world of literature. Just like with the Olympics, a little bit of competition gets people truly engrossed in the business of literature.
Emma Donoghue
#55. All great stars are competitive. That's a sign of a true artist - if you don't have the fire of competition deep down inside, you're never going to achieve anything. You have to want to be king of the heap.
Camille Paglia
#56. A lot of my friends aren't working, especially since fewer films are being made now and there's more competition.
Lily Collins
#57. By the 1980s, practically no one under 60 in the real civilian world wore hats for anything except weddings, funerals or Ascot. Hats had been in competition with hair, and hair had won. Thirty years before that, Brits of all classes and ages wore hats all the time.
Peter York
#58. My instinct was to win, eliminate anyone who is in competition, destroy my enemy, and move on without any kind of hesitation at all.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#59. 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
#60. The one thing that I really appreciate about being a runner is the incredible friendships and camaraderie that we, as runners, share. Although it will always be a cutthroat competition for every spot on every team, our companionship transcends these competitive rivalries.
Jennifer Rhines
#61. We believe in the art of war. We are trying to get our competition to attack us with angry, virulent energy, so we can transform that into larger market share.
Marc Benioff
#62. Ever-new Joy is God. He is inexhaustible; as you continue your meditations during the years, He will beguile you with an infinite ingenuity. Devotees like yourself who have found the way to God never dream of exchanging Him for any other happiness; He is seductive beyond thought of competition.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#63. The Founding Fathers set up a system that heavily relied upon self-reliance and competition, with only a small dose of government intrusion.
Bill O'Reilly
#64. There is no such thing as weak competition, it grows all the time.
Nabil N. Jamal
#66. If after giving it all that you possibly can, you do lose to the competition, then they really deserve the win.
Nabil N. Jamal
#67. I think competition is very important; it breeds many good things in a person.
Brian McBride
#68. Once sufficient concentration and merging have taken place, the winners hope to be free to establish a more orderly form of competition between themselves, one where they create differential advantages for their stores, so that 'their shoppers' no longer see one store as substitutable for any other.
Greg Thain
#69. Screw the competition - focus on good customer service.
Richard Branson
#70. I don't have a sense of entitlement or that I deserve this. You'd be surprised at the lack of competition between nominees - I think a lot of it's imposed from the outside. Can I have my champagne now?
Cate Blanchett
#71. Running became boring because it's so predictable. I got to a point where I knew what my competition could do.
Peter Snell
#72. I was getting Monkees Monthly and there was a competition to draw a Monkee. I did a caricature of Micky Dolenz and won 10 pounds-a fantastic sum of money for me then. I bought a secondhand tape recorder, which further launched me. They've been very responsible for me getting started.
Andy Partridge
#73. Status competition and the opportunistic making and breaking of alliances that marks political strife. For this, we have to go to the males, also in the elephant. For
Frans De Waal
#74. It is in vain for us to devise schemes by which competition can be put out of civilized life. Competition is the condition of life.
Lyman Abbott
#75. The leftist is antagonistic to the concept of competition because, deep inside, he feels like a loser.
Theodore Kaczynski
#76. Sometimes the enemy is not competition, but rather the comfort of repetition and complacency.
Anonymous
#77. Think of business as a good game. Lots of competition and a minimum of rules. You keep score with money.
Bill Gates
#78. The partnership is part of a flourishing industry that pairs plaintiffs' lawyers with state attorneys general to sue companies, a collaboration that has set off a furious competition between trial lawyers and corporate lobbyists to influence these officials.
Anonymous
#79. The paradigm of competition is a race: by rewarding the winner, we encourage everyone to run faster. When capitalism really works this way, it does a good job; but its defenders are wrong in assuming it always works this way.
Richard Stallman
#80. Under the First Amendment there is no such thing as a false idea. However pernicious an opinion may seem, we depend for its correction not on the conscience of judges and juries but on the competition of other ideas.
Lewis F. Powell Jr.
#81. Competition is enjoyable only when it is a means to perfect one's skills; when it becomes an end in itself, it ceases to be fun.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
#82. There are 20 million unemployed and what does the Constitution offer us in the Europe of 25, 27 and soon to be 30: policies of unrestricted competition to the detriment of production, wages, research and innovation.
Laurent Fabius
#83. No system of regulation can safely be substituted for the operation of individual liberty as expressed in competition.
Louis D. Brandeis
#85. Grab the work when it comes, my man. Your competition is now a fourteen-year-old in pajamas with the username Truth-ninja-12 who believes fact-checking a story is reading his subject's Twitter feed. Be afraid.
Marisha Pessl
#86. If Apple has a flaw, it's the inability of the company to crush competition using the kind of aggressive tactics that companies like Microsoft and Intel have always applied.
John C. Dvorak
#88. The only thing that's changed is the competitiveness of the series. It's only become harder to win in our series as the years have gone by. Competition breeds good things, and that's what's happened here.
Al Unser
#89. I'm hooked on food competition shows. It's unique, different ... I definitely understand the importance of strategy.
Bill Rancic
#90. A free economy cannot exist without competition. Therefore, men must be forced to compete. Therefore, we must control men in order to force them to be free.
Ayn Rand
#91. I went to the International Ballet competition when I was 15 or 16 and that was the first time I competed. I didn't get very far but it was the first time that I realized what I needed to do to become a dancer. I realized how hard it was.
Joan Chen
#92. Honestly, we'll compete with everybody. I love competition. As long as people invent their own stuff, I love competition.
Tim Cook
#93. Competition-ruthless, unforgiving, to-the-death competition-is a crucial feature of capitalism.
Jim Stanford
#94. If there were an international butt competition, Eric would win, hands down - or cheeks up.
Charlaine Harris
#95. I think that Ring of Honor is a true alternative in the world of pro wrestling. Some of the best in-ring pure competition in the world you will find in Ring of Honor.
Adam Cole
#96. Since today's companies are totally dependent on a continuing human membership that produces a superior intellectual output in comparison to the competition, then there is inevitably a fight over the right to the bottom line.
Arie De Geus
#97. The existing principle of selfish interest and competition has been carried to its extreme point; and, in its progress, has isolated the heart of man, blunted the edge of his finest sensibilities, and annihilated all his most generous impulses and sympathies.
Frances Wright
#98. There will be a competition for the memorial. And then it can be developed with trees, with planting. It can become a very beautiful place protected from the streets, because it is below. And it can be something very moving and very private.
Daniel Libeskind
#99. Humor is the oxygen of children's literature. There's a lot of competition for children's time, but even kids who hate to read want to read a funny book.
Sid Fleischman
#100. When you're thinking about your next product or current product and wondering how to make it different so you don't have competition, understand the job the customer needs to get done.
Clayton Christensen
