Quotes About Healthy Competition

#1. I think healthy competition is good for business, and really at the end best for end-users. Just think about what Android would have been if it was not for iPhone - a better blackberry?

Jack Levin

#2. 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

#3. Healthy competition places discipline on the market and should focus providers on providing the best service at a lower cost.

Julius Genachowski

#4. I am no stranger to healthy competition-wor king hard and playing hard

Richard Branson

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. There is a healthy competition as there would be in any business. But we do not spend our days thinking about what Marvel is doing.

Diane Nelson

#8. I loved tests because it was another form of competing, a healthy competition.

Suzanne Farrell

#9. A neutrality law would dampen this healthy competition.

Anonymous

#10. 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

#11. When healthy competition prevails
you come out to play and you play to win.

Lorii Myers

#12. I would draw a really big distinction between competition, or potential competition, and a conflict of interest. A conflict of interest implies wrongdoing, whereas competition is really healthy.

Bill Maris

#13. Having traveled a lot and met people from different horizons it makes you more humble and ready to listen.

Tariq Ramadan

#14. Competition and competitive rhetoric can be healthy. It's what drove the United States to pursue the Soviet Union into space, creating countless innovations along the way.

Wendy Kopp

#15. Competition is healthy. It makes you work harder and strive for more and try to find that extra one or two percent in your game that you could possibly improve.

Bernhard Langer

#16. Competition is healthy, if you can turn it off and on. When someone gets too cocky in victory, that can ruin the positive aspect.

Eddie Vedder

#17. In business, competition is never as healthy as total domination.

Peter Lynch

#18. That's immediately how I gauge how healthy a city is-by the amount of tags. It's just in direct competition with advertising. It's still one of the last things that hasn't been corrupted.

Barry McGee

#19. People think because I've got some success, I've made it, but in my eyes it's like, 'How long has Jay Z been in the business? How many albums has he got?' Not that I'm trying to be Jay Z, but I am trying to be around for a long time.

J. Cole

#20. Chestnuts are delicacies for princes and a lusty and masculine food for rusticks, and able to make women well-complexioned.

John Evelyn

#21. I was born with a fierce need for independence.

Michelle Williams

#22. Competition is very good ... as long as its healthy. It's what makes one strive to be better.

Christine Lahti

#23. The Olympics are a wonderful metaphor for world cooperation, the kind of international competition that's wholesome and healthy, an interplay between countries that represents the best in all of us.

John Williams

#24. The envier praises me unknowingly.

Khalil Gibran

#25. Be a great writer when you write your life's song.

Debasish Mridha

#26. I have been interested in global web-based communities and emerging technologies since the mid 80's. There is a revolution occurring in global culture nowadays, that will change everything. and it's only just beginning.

Alex Winter

#27. Sporting competitions seem to be what we obsess over, frankly. So if we can put engineering, science, technology into a format of healthy, fun competition, we can attract all sorts of kids that might not see the kind of activity we do as accessible or rewarding.

Dean Kamen

#28. Be yourself to understand others.

Debasish Mridha

#29. Unless there is free and fair competition, there can't be healthy economic development. And what we have in Burma now is not an open-market economy that allows free and fair competition, but a form of colonialism makes a few people very, very wealthy. It's what you would crony capitalism.

Aung San Suu Kyi

#30. Because the free market system is so weak politically, the forms of capitalism that are experienced in many countries are very far from the ideal. They are a corrupted version, in which powerful interests prevent competition from playing its natural, healthy role.

Raghuram Rajan

#31. When you're working for yourself and your own obsession with finding the truth, you're at your own mercy.

Errol Morris

#32. Don't kill the competition. Competition is healthy for businesses. It keeps you the entrepreneur on your toes.

Aliko Dangote

#33. 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

#34. Competition is healthy ... but there is more to life than winning or we should nearly all be losers

Charles Handy

#35. Darwinism can be used to back up two mad moralities, but it cannot be used to back up a single sane one. The kinship and competition of all living creatures can be used as a reason for being insanely cruel or insanely sentimental; but not for a healthy love of animals.

G.K. Chesterton