Competition Quotes

• A system must be managed. It will not manage itself. Left to themselves in the Western world, components become selfish, competitive, independent profit centres, and thus destroy the system. . . . The secret is cooperation between components toward the aim of the organization. We can not afford the destructive effect of competition.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • World
  • Independent
  • Organization

• When two sympatric, closely related species appear to have very similar needs, we may ask whether mechanisms exist that enable them to avoid direct competition. Implicit in this questions the presumption that two species with identical requirements cannot coexist (Gause 1934).

  

  Carl Safina
  • May
  • Competition

• I have a slightly crap blog where I opine on anything that occurs to me and run the occasional silly competition.

  

  Mark Lawrence
  • Competition
  • Silly

• All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost - the most legitimate - passion nature has bred into us and, without doubt, the most agreeable one.

  

  Marquis de Sade
  • Nature
  • Desire
  • Passion

• I'm only in competition with my last level. It don't have nothing to do with music or anything. And the last level is hard competition, the last place you were.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • Music
  • Hard
  • Lasts

• I want to come back and do talk. I want to do late-night talk the right way. Arsenio ain't there anymore, and the late-night talk competition is weak. All them dudes is weak. I don't even know who they are. Weirdos, and I don't even care. I want to bring real fun back to late night where a real comedian is doing it.

  

  Mark Curry
  • Real
  • Fun
  • Night

• 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.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • Work
  • Opinion
  • Internet

• Freediving can be extremely dangerous. It's got an incredibly high fatality rate outside of competition. But there's never been a fatality in competition. In terms of spear fishing and people who train by themselves, it's the second most dangerous sport in the world after base jumping. If you black out by yourself, you drown.

  

  Tanc Sade
  • People
  • World
  • High

• Sisters define their rivalry in terms of competition for the gold cup of parental love. It is never perceived as a cup which runneth over, rather a finite vessel from which the more one sister drinks, the less is left over for the others.

  

  Elizabeth Fishel
  • Gold
  • Sister
  • Sisters

• I love being the favourite of every competition.

  

  Katie Taylor
  • Competition

• 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
  • Beautiful
  • Moving
  • Memorial

• When I see an artist whose work I like at a party - I'm old now, so I can do this - I go right over and tell them how much I like their work. Instantly, I'm on their side. The act of saying it takes away the competition. The act of saying it makes me not hate them anymore, because they're good.

  

  Marilyn Minter
  • Good
  • Work
  • Hate

• Honestly, I wish I'd known just how hard it is and how competitive the acting world is. I took my time; I went at my own pace. That's been helpful over the years, but also, I didn't quite realize how incredible everyone else was going to be: the level of competition and everyone's skill.

  

  Max von Essen
  • Time
  • World
  • Wish

• We have a wonderful opportunity, a long way to go, to get our presentation up to speed with our competition. This will help us do some of that.

  

  Eric Hyman
  • Opportunity
  • Competition
  • Presentation

• Competition is always there.

  

  Arundhati Bhattacharya
  • Competition

• When I broke in, in 1957, it was wide open. Now you're up against strong competition.

  

  Larry King
  • Up
  • Strong
  • Now

• Whereas a competitive firm must sell at the market price, a monopoly owns its market, so it can set its own prices. Since it has no competition, it produces at the quantity and price combination that maximizes its profits.

  

  Peter Thiel
  • Competition

• What I worry about the most is the competition for young eyeballs. We have so many other competing forms of media. I don't take any audience members for granted.

  

  Chris Meledandri
  • Worry
  • Competition

• There's a theory that says that life is based on a competition and the struggle and the fight for survival, and it's interesting because when you look at the fractal character of evolution, it's totally different. It's based on cooperation among the elements in the geometry and not competition.

  

  Bruce Lipton
  • Life
  • Different
  • Character

• I'm hooked on food competition shows. It's unique, different... I definitely understand the importance of strategy.

  

  Bill Rancic
  • Different
  • Food
  • Unique

• There is this fallacy about how women are catty, that we're all in competition with each other. I'd say: As opposed to getting swept up in jealousy, use that pang to give you an indication of what you are looking for.

  

  Alicia Keys
  • Up
  • Women
  • Jealousy

• It's not about big markets or small markets. It's not about dominant teams or not. It's about the actual competition and how good the games are, how good the series turn out. That's what I think is the most important for fans.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Good
  • Important
  • Small

• Big industry, competition and generally the individualistic organization of production have become a fetter which it must and will shatter.

  

  Friedrich Engels
  • Competition
  • Organization

• I wrote my first short story for a competition and won second prize. Another competition came up and I won first prize. The first story was published in a newspaper. The second went out on radio.

  

  Ian Rankin
  • Up
  • Story
  • Short

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