Competition Quotes And Sayings

Quotes And Sayings About Competition

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Competition is the final price determinant and competitive prices may result in profits which force you to accept a rate of return less than you hoped for, or for that matter to accept temporary losses.
~By Alfred P. Sloan ~


I kinda see everyone as competition. I'm a very competitive person. But I think that's good. Competition is great. And as long as it's friendly and not a malicious thing, then I think it's cool.
~By Janet Jackson ~


For me, half the joy of achieving has been the struggle and the fight, the pitting myself against the world and all its competition - and winning.
~By Conrad Veidt ~


Hence we did not foster competition in our school, on the contrary.
~By Dora Russell ~


The kind of society which we still have is maybe, in some cases, getting worse. Competition is becoming a virtue. Intense competition drives people to go more and more into self-interest. Even to see other folks as competition.
~By Major Owens ~


Many of those who argue for vouchers say that they simply want to use competition to improve public education. I don't think it works that way, and I've been watching this for a longtime.
~By Jonathan Kozol ~


We need to be aware of all aspects: To check how they travel, how they eat, the competition conditions.
~By Alberto Juantorena ~


It was a natural process, because when we go to the ring we are human beings, but once you feel the punches and the competition that's when the beast comes out and takes hold of us.
~By Alexis Arguello ~


I'm a great believer in the competitive system, and think that competition will bring us greater innovation and put American industry in information ahead of everyone also.
~By Harold H. Greene ~


Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.
~By Fred Allen ~


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.
~By Julius Erving ~


Well, we know that people in Australia love the idea of both Impulse and Virgin Blue getting up and adding a bit of competition, and it's fun to be able to deliver it.
~By Richard Branson ~


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.
~By Francis Wright ~


If you're not making mistakes, you're not taking risks, and that means you're not going anywhere. The key is to make mistakes faster than the competition, so you have more changes to learn and win.
~By John W. Holt, Jr. ~


I've never felt any sense of competition with anybody, and we're all friends; we're all good friends.
~By Jim Henson ~


In my fifty years of experience and memory, I have seen the most amazing increase in the standard of living of a people ever achieved anywhere in the world. This is why I am so sure that our system of free competition and industrial development is sound and must be preserved.
~By Charles E. Wilson ~


In this day and time, with no competition you are really walking a tightrope. I mean you may think that no competition is good, but in reality no competition is really bad.
~By Jerry Lawler ~


More than 20 years on, sustained competition, informed customers and the rapid growth of new technology provide the necessary environment for substantial deregulation.
~By Stephen Carter ~


The pressure people put on themselves and the rivalry between the teams is much more marked. And I think that's a good thing. As long as that rivalry remains within the spirit of competition, it con only spur everyone on.
~By Eric Cantona ~


Well, it's still another two-day competition, so it's really important to show that you're ready. Every meet is really important right now. You've got to keep showing you can hit.
~By Carly Patterson ~


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.
~By Edwin Starr ~


America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.
~By Barack Obama ~


I don't think about goals and records. Competition is what keeps me playing.
~By Lou Brock ~


During such a competition players are there for a long time as well as all the people around them. They need to train, to eat, to go out. There ought to be something in it for everyone. On that particular point, my experience has been a bonus.
~By Michel Patini ~


There were no competitions on television. The first skating competition I ever remember seeing on television was the 1968 Olympics when Peggy Fleming won.
~By Dorothy Hamill ~


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.
~By Laurent Fabius ~


The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together.
~By Karl Marx ~


Our role is to maintain and monitor a framework in which fair competition can flourish.
~By Arthur Levitt ~


And what it depends on, of course, is whether the story itself is worth the ethical compromise it requires and whether the competition is onto the story.
~By Roger Mudd ~


I am always fighting inside the Council to get the message across that at each competition venue, we should send somebody to inspect and to make sure the athletes will be looked after in a correct manner.
~By Alberto Juantorena ~


There are many examples in high schools which show something about the effects such competition might have.
~By James S. Coleman ~


Indeed, we must foster cost-saving competition. And that means joining the marketplace of other industrialized countries - not just for the manufacturers who sell drugs, but for consumers as well.
~By Olympia Snowe ~


Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.
~By George S. Patton ~


I was always talking about what I could and would do, and you would always make rhymes about the competion even though we werent thinking about competition.
~By Kool Moe Dee ~


They gave me away as a prize once - a Win Tony Curtis For A Weekend competition. The woman who won was disappointed. She'd hoped for second prize - a new stove.
~By Tony Curtis ~


I've run a lot of miles over the years, some fast and some not so fast. I've won some big races and I've had some big disappointments, but I enjoy the freedom of running and the challenge of training and competition as much now as when I first started back in high school.
~By Alberto Salazar ~


You should be having more fun in high school, exploring things because you want to explore them and learning because you love learning-not worrying about competition.
~By Maya Lin ~


Also, there are authors and publicists using the Internet to manipulate opinion, both positively for a work and negatively against the competition. I don't do this and can't stomach it, honestly.
~By R. A. Salvatore ~


So the competition isn't once you got the license, running the station; it's getting the license.
~By Robert McChesney ~


Also at the top of the list was my three day appearance on 'Press Your Luck'. In addition to the intense competition of each of those games, it slowly started to dawn on me in the minutes between tapings that I was winning some serious money.
~By Randy West ~


The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself.
~By Washington Allston ~


I don't think that the Pulitzer should be given the way it is. I think the competition should be anonymous. I think completely different people would win it if the names were taken off because a lot of it is done on relationships and names.
~By John Corigliano ~


We had a great group of guys when I was there, five of us, I think. It's a great competition. Every practice was hard. I think that's helped us a lot, everybody that was there.
~By Peter Forsberg ~


As soon, however, as capitalist competition has definitively established the equal rate of profit, that rate becomes the starting point for the calculations of the capitalists in the investment of capital in newly-created branches of production.
~By Rudolf Hiferding ~


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.
~By Dennis Prager ~


I think life is sort of like a competition, whether it's in sports, or it's achieving in school, or it's achieving good relationships with people. And competition is a little bit of what it's all about.
~By Sanford I. Weill ~


But we're all so different, we're different ages; we're not vying for the same roles. There's no competition, there's really kind of a sisterhood, on and off the set, you know?
~By Jeanne Tripplehorn ~


Sure, but competition is good for the user.
~By Wietse Venema ~


The tension between centrality, on the one hand, and competition, on the other, is probably the oldest of all market structure issues.
~By Arthur Levitt ~


The Christian market has less competition and lower standards.
~By Jerry B. Jenkins ~


I think competition is very important; it breeds many good things in a person.
~By Brian McBride ~


No, there's not much competition between puppeteers in general because everybody's working their own style.
~By Jim Henson ~


The thought that we're in competition with Russians or with Chinese is all a mistake, and trivial. We are one species, with a world to win.
~By George Wald ~


Just as predatory animals follow a similar general design and behave in similar ways, so organizations, especially those in competition with one another, must follow certain design principles if they are to succeed and prevail.
~By Robert Shea ~


Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.
~By Henry Ford ~


It was just crazy opportunity to see that whole world and the competitions that we had in the film, like Long Beach, it was just crazy and so much fun. I felt like I lived all those moments in the movie.
~By John Robinson ~


I think in terms of family, in terms of relationships, in terms of work, competition to be the favorite, to be the noticed, to be the one - I don't know if it exists for all personalities, but I know for sure it did with me.
~By Marcia Gay Harden ~


The time is coming when the pressure of population on the means of subsistence will be felt here as it is now felt in Europe and Asia. Then will the world enter upon a new stage of its history - the final competition of races, for which the Anglo-Saxon is being schooled.
~By Josiah Strong ~


If he is knocked out of the competition, he encourages his brothers with his words and presence.
~By Pierre de Coubertin ~


When we say that the persistence of competition is ensured by fate, we mean that individual freedom is so guaranteed. The one thing to which fate binds us is liberty.
~By John Bates Clark ~


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.
~By Al Unser ~


Our only competition in the theater is boredom, because if I'm bored with a play, if I'm revolted by a play on stage, with the Broadway prices, especially today, I'm going to walk out and not come back and pay that price again.
~By Jerome Lawrence ~


Murdoch paid too much for the Wall Street Journal even when he didn't have any competition.
~By Sumner Redstone ~


Then I received support from the Government to compete for my country, and to represent Cuba in competition.
~By Alberto Juantorena ~


I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it.
~By Walt Disney ~


Competition in armament, both land and naval, is not only a terrible burden upon the people, but I believe it to be one of the greatest menaces to the peace of the world.
~By Frank B. Kellogg ~


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.
~By Norm Dicks ~


Like many businessmen of genius he learned that free competition was wasteful, monopoly efficient. And so he simply set about achieving that efficient monopoly.
~By Mario Puzo ~


Most of the competition was into bulk popcorn because of the major increases in the Drive-In Theatre Outlets.
~By Orville Redenbacher ~


Sometimes I have to accept a job I don't really want. Hardly anybody comes up to you with a commission; it's all competitions these days.
~By Helmut Jahn ~


I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.
~By Oksana Baiul ~


I mean, the competition is really created by the buzz around the Emmys. It's a totally subjective thing.
~By Michael C. Hall ~


Reference to the territory and total disregard for the nationality of the companies is of course the best guarantee that competition assessment remain just that and doesn't get affected by trade or other considerations.
~By Mario Monti ~


Whereas there's a wealth of galleries in Australia, everyone's got a gallery in Australia or wants your work. Because the art scene is smaller in Indonesia, there's not so much competition.
~By Andrew Jack ~


I have no problem with battling for a position. I have no problem trying to beat somebody out. It's a sport, competition, so I'm used to it.
~By Chris Bell ~


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.
~By Niki Lauda ~


There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women.
~By Muhammad Ali Jinnah ~


In 1982 when I showed up, the average age of the drivers in the series was something like 40, 41. The crowds were small. There was not much prize money. The competition wasn't very tight.
~By Bobby Rahal ~


In Britain, because I live here, I can also run into problems of envy and competition. But all this is just in a day's work for a writer. You can't put stuff out there without someone calling you a complete fool. Oh, well.
~By Alain de Botton ~


Competition is a sin.
~By John D. Rockefeller ~


I was on the sideline with a knee injury and when I came back, I wanted to play at the best level I could. And that's the case for a lot of players, they want the chance to play against the best competition.
~By Claudio Reyna ~


So the programs all start to all look the same. I watched one free skating competition, and I thought I was watching a short program. Everyone was doing exactly the same elements.
~By Brian Boitano ~


There are horses people use for competition, and if they don't perform well or go lame, then people ask the vet to put them down to get the insurance money. And my vet knows I love horses, so he gives them to me.
~By Daryl Hannah ~


Competition is the spice of sports; but if you make spice the whole meal you'll be sick.
~By George Leonard ~


I truly don't know why the boys are getting all the votes - it could be because they are really amazing, and that's all there is to it. They're really, really good and every single boy deserves to be in the competition right now, and so do the two girls.
~By Pia Toscano ~


My sister Liza and I have never felt that we were in competition.
~By Lorna Luft ~


It hasn't been hard getting nominated, but winning it is another thing. The competition is tough.
~By Gary Burton ~


At the very least we should be given a bit of credit and a little bit of space, and maybe the media should think we could help them discover why English teams do not win European competitions.
~By Jose Mourinho ~


Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress.
~By Herbert Hoover ~


I think exercise tests us in so many ways, our skills, our hearts, our ability to bounce back after setbacks. This is the inner beauty of sports and competition, and it can serve us all well as adult athletes.
~By Peggy Fleming ~


Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce.
~By Walter Savage Landor ~


Research your idea. See if there's a demand. A lot of people have great ideas, but they don't know if there's a need for it. You also have to research your competition.
~By Magic Johnson ~


I don't try to be a threat to MicroSoft, mainly because I don't really see MS as competition. Especially not Windows-the goals of Linux and Windows are simply so different.
~By Linus Torvalds ~


We got to know the competition very well. In the '50s popcorn made a big growth in sales. Our main push was to produce the best quality and sell in quality retail outlets.
~By Orville Redenbacher ~


I don't see myself as competing with other actresses. I mean, I went through a time when I was in New York, and I was going to lots of auditions and trying to get parts, but even then, you're not really competing with the other actresses. There is a competition going on, but it's not like something you can win in that way.
~By Annette Bening ~


You learn so much from competition you gain confidence every time you have to step up and perform.
~By Natalie Gulbis ~


You may call me a Klansman if you will, but, potentially, every white man is a Klansman, as far as the Negro in competition with whites socially, economically and politically is concerned, and there is no use lying.
~By Marcus Garvey ~


Competition helps people figure it out.
~By Brian McBride ~


Number one, cash is king... number two, communicate... number three, buy or bury the competition.
~By Jack Welch ~


A variety of factors contribute to the price of gasoline in the United States. These factors include worldwide supply, demand and competition for crude oil, taxes, regional differences in access to gasoline supplies and environmental regulations.
~By Gary Miller ~

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December 7 ,2023
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