Competition Quotes

• I was brought up to believe that Scotch whisky would need a tax preference to survive in competition with Kentucky bourbon.

  

  Hugo Black
  • Believe
  • Whisky
  • Bourbon

• Nowadays young people have great choice of occupations, hobbies, etc, so chess is experiencing difficulties because of the high competition. Now it's hard to make living in chess, so our profession does attract young people.

  

  Boris Spassky
  • People
  • Great
  • High

• As I talk with the Chinese on currency, I encourage them to move much more quickly with opening up their capital markets to competition, because I don't believe the world is going to give them as much time as they would like.

  

  Henry Paulson
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• Technologies like PayPal foster competition because they enable people to shift their funds from one jurisdiction to another, and I think that ultimately will lead to a world in which there's less government power and therefore more individual control.

  

  Peter Thiel
  • People
  • World
  • Power

• 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
  • College
  • Wine
  • Drinking

• The Eisenhower Memorial competition and project have stirred a remarkable polemic, the center of which is not President Eisenhower or Washington, D.C. but Mr. Gehry and the values he promulgates.

  

  Leon Krier
  • Competition
  • Memorial

• People tend to think about trade as if it's competition between companies - if Apple wins, Google loses. But that's false. Trade makes nations better off in general. Now, I want to be clear. I'm not saying that everything about trade is good and beneficial. Trade also has costs.

  

  David Autor
  • People
  • Good
  • Competition

• In gymnastics, everything is a competition. You want to have your hair look the best and your makeup look the best. You want to be the best, and you want to have the prettiest leotard.

  

  McKayla Maroney
  • Hair
  • Makeup
  • Gymnastics

• This dinner is so nice. The competition (at the auction) is always tough, especially with the home in Mexico that has been donated the last four years by Anne and Jack Kennedy and all the other things. It's really about great people having a great time for a great cause.

  

  Nancy Anderson
  • Great
  • Dinner
  • Four

• Instead of engaging in cutthroat competition, we should strive to create value. In economic terms, this means a transition from a consumer economy - the mad rush for ownership and consumption - to a constructive economy where all human beings can participate in the act of creating lasting worth.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Mean
  • Value
  • Mad

• Every competition I do, I never know if it's the last one.

  

  Charlotte Dujardin
  • Competition

• So the premise of 'The Submission' is that there's an anonymous competition to design a 9/11 memorial and it's won by an American Muslim, an architect born and raised in Virginia, and his name is Mohammad Khan.

  

  Amy Waldman
  • American
  • Design
  • Anonymous

• The available evidence suggests that generally, Qwest has succeeded in opening local telecommunications markets to competition.

  

  Charles James
  • Competition
  • Evidence
  • Qwest

• When you know who your customers are, that can give you an edge on the competition.

  

  Alain Bouchard
  • Competition

• It's very difficult today for girls to become supermodels. There is a lot more competition, a lot of countries in the East have opened up so there are many more models than there were in the Nineties. Now they have to compete with famous actresses but also with, say, reality stars to be on the magazine covers.

  

  Claudia Schiffer
  • Up
  • Today
  • Reality

• Corporate competition is fierce, viewed by many as economic warfare where all is fair. But politics... now, this is something unique.

  

  John McAfee
  • Unique
  • Competition
  • Fierce

• Is there something about the gay experience, being gay and the gay experience, that pushes us even more than other people toward competition?

  

  Peter Thiel
  • People
  • Experience
  • Gay

• I think competition can make people stronger at whatever it is they're competing on. If we're competing in some athletic event for competitive swimmers, really intensely competing, it's likely that both of us will become better, but it's also quite possible we'll lose sight of what's truly valuable.

  

  Peter Thiel
  • People
  • Competition

• I want to be the first lady to land a quadruple jump in competition. As I grow older, I know that my skating style will develop and mature.

  

  Sasha Cohen
  • Competition
  • Jump
  • First Lady

• Every time you go for more competition, some people don't like it, but that's the way it is.

  

  Enrique Pena Nieto
  • People
  • Time
  • Competition

• The truth, ... is that Microsoft has been a monopolist found by a federal judge to have undercut innovation and hence competition and consumer welfare.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • Truth
  • Judge
  • Innovation

• I think the common elements first are that, basically, we are entering markets or in markets that are deregulating or have recently deregulated, and so they have become competitive, moving from monopoly franchise-type businesses to competitive, market-oriented businesses.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Thinking
  • Moving
  • Common

• My training diet can be quite strict when I'm coming up to competition; it's a weight-making sport, of course. But I eat quite healthily anyway, and it's less strict when out of competition.

  

  Katie Taylor
  • Up
  • Training
  • Competition

• Competition for power is of two sorts: between organizations, and between individuals for leadership within an organization.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Power
  • Leadership
  • Organization

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