Competition Quotes
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Being properly prepared is one of the biggest assets in business and in athletic competition.
Keeth Smart
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I hope I never have to face that feeling of missing and sending my country or team out of a competition.
Alan Shearer
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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
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I was kind of freaked out by the art world in the 1980s. Just the money thing. All the competition over artists.
Kim Gordon Sonic Youth
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Intellectual-property rules are clearly necessary to spur innovation: if every invention could be stolen, or every new drug immediately copied, few people would invest in innovation. But too much protection can strangle competition and can limit what economists call 'incremental innovation' - innovations that build, in some way, on others.
James Surowiecki
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I prefer playing ATP tournaments and Davis Cup competition rather than Olympic Games.
Dominic Thiem
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I think it's really good that you have great competition among news networks, and for that matter all the networks in general. It's bringing more and more people in to watching the news.
Walter Isaacson
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I've been playing against older and stronger competition my whole life. It has made me a better tennis player and able to play against this kind of level despite their strength and experience.
Maria Sharapova
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Thou shalt not covet, but traditionApproves all forms of competition.
Arthur Hugh Clough
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In 2010, I was ranked top 50 in the deadlift in three different weight classes, and I won my first natural bodybuilding competition.
Matt McGorry
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It's not good to focus on one person or two persons about being your rivals. The important thing is just to train hard and be ready for the competition and to prepare for the races so that in case of anything that comes out, you are able to handle it.
David Rudisha
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Music isn't a competition.
Benjamin Clementine
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The only way to beat the competition is to stop trying to beat the competition
W. Chan Kim
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Imports create competition and keep domestic industry more responsive to consumers. In the United States, we import everything consumers want. So why not pharmaceuticals?
Chuck Grassley
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Many of my students assume that government protection is the only thing ensuring decent wages for most American workers. But basic economics shows that competition between employers for workers can be very effective at preventing businesses from misbehaving.
Christina Romer
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Challenges keep evolving as you move into different stages. When you are at a prototype stage, it's about getting that sustenance money. Then, talent becomes an issue; your early hires are difficult to get when you aren't too big. Later, it's about handling growth; then, you have competition.
Bhavish Aggarwal
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No more pronouncements on lousy verse. No more hidden competition. No more struggling not to be a square.
Louise Bogan
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The higher people get, the more evolved and psychologically healthy people get, the more will enlightened management policy be necessary in order to survive in competition and the more handicapped will be an enterprise with an authoritarian policy.
Abraham Maslow
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Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.
Marshall Field
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I was always a show girl. My parents were wonderful. There wasn't a lot going on where we lived, but they ferried me to classes and competitions all over the place. When I was 12, I came to London as a finalist in a singing competition and I was completely wide-eyed.
Anna Maxwell Martin
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I've always enjoyed drinking wine, ever since I was in college. My appreciation really took off when I began to visit Napa. I was toying with an idea of making wine in Napa, but it's prohibitively expensive, and the competition is fierce.
Kyle MacLachlan
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Liberals hate religion because politics is a religion substitute for liberals and they can't stand the competition.
Ann Coulter
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That a joint stock company should be able to carry on successfully any branch of foreign trade, when private adventurers can come into any sort of open and fair competition with them, seems contrary to all experience.
Adam Smith
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I'm more convinced than when I accepted this job that we can create a viable Ford Motor Co. that makes cars and trucks that people really do prefer. And we can make them using minimum resources and minimum time and be competitive with our competition.
Alan Mulally