Jon Batiste Quotes

It's not like the old competition that you had between Leno and Letterman. It's a friendly competition between Fallon and Stephen.

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• I think it is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. Since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition. In fact, there are so few people this crazy that I feel like I know them all by first name.

  

  Larry Page
  • People
  • Crazy
  • Progress

• I think that tennis has been in a place for many years without any change. Davis Cup and Fed Cup has always been a very exciting platform for players because it is such an individual sport, and we get to play a team competition. We love being part of a team.

  

  Mahesh Bhupathi
  • Think
  • Team
  • Change

• 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.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Together
  • Competition
  • Labor

• America's peak years of indigenous innovation ran from the 1820s to the 1960s. There were a few financial panics and two depressions, to be sure. But in this period, a frenzy of creative activity, economic competition and rapid growth in national income provided widening economic inclusion, rising wages for all, and engaging careers for most.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • America
  • Growth
  • Period

• By killing transparency and competition, crony capitalism is harmful to free enterprise, opportunity, and economic growth. And by substituting special interests for the public interest, it is harmful to democratic expression.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Free
  • Opportunity
  • Growth

• I agree that the two-party system stomps on any kind of competition. A great first step is to open the presidential debates to all qualified candidates, including the Libertarians. If that happens, the Libertarian party will experience unprecedented growth.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Great
  • Experience
  • Party

• Ukrainian business must really embrace global competition. We need to understand that competition for resources and clients is not with competitors from across the street or from another city, but with millions of businesses around the world.

  

  Victor Pinchuk
  • World
  • Business
  • City

• Email is a senior citizen. It's been around since at least the 1960s in one form or another. In the 1990s and early 2000s, there was a hot competition among consumer email services like Yahoo Mail, Hotmail and Gmail.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Competition
  • Senior
  • Citizen

• I've always believed in myself, and it's such a long competition over two days, you can't worry about what anyone else is doing.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Long
  • Myself
  • Worry

• What's so great about Sundance is that they only accept such a small handful of films per year for dramatic competition, so you know when you're going to Sundance that you're going to see top-quality projects.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Great
  • Small
  • Quality

• Many of those who have paid the ultimate price for freedom have come through the wrestling ranks. We need to honor them and win this decision to have wrestling - the world's oldest sport - remain a part of the most prestigious athletic competition in the world, the Olympics.

  

  Dan Gable
  • World
  • Freedom
  • Decision

• 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
  • Space
  • Competition
  • Healthy

• During the 19th-century struggle for women's rights in America, many saw a competition between rights for black people and those for women.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • People
  • Women
  • America

• 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.

  

  Gary Miller Bad Brains
  • Competition
  • Environmental

• 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
  • Business
  • Competition

• I thrive on competition.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Competition
  • Thrive

• When you love competition, you don't want the market to consolidate.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • Want
  • Competition
  • Market

• You can't put yourself into competition with a magazine like 'Vogue.' You have to create something new, something different.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Different
  • You
  • Yourself

• I have listened to you, to our people. I have heard your doubts, your anxieties, nay, outright opposition to the lifting of Martial Law. And I have prayed to the Almighty for guidance. And it is after deliberate, sober judgment and soul-searching that I come before you and say, it is now time to terminate martial law.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • People
  • Time
  • Soul

• If you want to retire as a multimillionaire, then you need to start saving as early as you can.

  

  John Rampton

• When I was a child, I was referred to as the Danny Kaye of the family, because I was always impersonating and mimicking people. I was a song and dance man.

  

  Jason Mantzoukas
  • People
  • Family
  • Song

• A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.

  

  William Strunk, Jr.
  • Reason
  • Sentences
  • Unnecessary

• I still feel like I haven't grown up.

  

  David Duchovny
  • Up

• It's not like the old competition that you had between Leno and Letterman. It's a friendly competition between Fallon and Stephen.

  

  Jon Batiste
  • Competition