Competition Quotes
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From the equilibrium and spontaneous order of Adam Smith and his heirs, from invisible-handed markets and perfect competition, supply and demand, and rewards and punishments, I was pushed to theories of disequilibrium and disorder, and information and noise, as the keys to understanding economic progress.
George Gilder
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The way for newspapers to meet the competition of radio and television is simply to get out better papers.
H. L. Mencken
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You start to worry about what happens if you don't win. You start to fear man because you want praise from man. You start thinking about how winning will lead to more money. There are a lot of sin issues inside of that. So now when I go into competition, I have to take my thoughts captive and use God's Word to fight that battle.
David Boudia
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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.
Jonathan Kozol
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Thinking about one memory tends to activate other memories. ...If you are trying to retrieve a particular memory, the flood of memories can cause competition... leaving you with a traffic jam of neural nodes... leaving you with nothing.
Daniel Levitin
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Although it was a particularly bad result, we have to remain calm because the competition has only just started and we can't afford to be demoralised.
Vanderlei Luxemburgo
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Executive pay has skyrocketed for many reasons - including the prevalence of overly cozy boards and changing cultural norms about pay - but increasing scale, competition, and innovation have all played major roles.
Chrystia Freeland
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I trust him implicitly but that doesn't stop women coming on to him. It infuriates me when women approach him [Ioan] and kiss him full on the mouth right in front of me. They obviously don't think of me as any competition now that I'm a brunette. I think I might have to go blonde again!
Alice Evans
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You've got to stay current and up with the competition. The main thing, though, is finding the greatest songs you can possibly find.
Reba McEntire
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Militarism is in direct competition with people's needs for food, health care, and environmental protection.
Petra Kelly
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When players go out and train on their own, they usually do it at half speed. This kind of training is valuable, but it doesn't prepare you for competition, where you must perform at full throttle. So the trick is to schedule regular sessions of intense practice, while always leaving time to juggle and generally goof around with the ball
Mia Hamm
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When you begin moving toward excellence, you will find very little competition. You're competing with only 20% of the population.
Brian Tracy
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We need the ability to buy healthcare insurance across state lines that would increase competition and drive down cost.
Monica Crowley
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Look at politics; they're always in competition over an election, who wants to win. It's just who we are, it's what we do.
Charles Tillman
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The fact of the matter is that I've enjoyed the competition in life and the business of life; I've enjoyed all that goes with it.
William Schreyer
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Olympics is global competition in which eighty, ninety, hundred, hundred and ten countries participate.
George Pataki
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The business plan should address: "How will I get customers? How will I market the product or service? Who will I target?" The principles of a business plan are pretty much the same. But after page one to two, everything is unpredictable, because costs or competition will change and you don't know how things will be received by the market. You have to be able to continually adapt. Companies that fail to adapt will die. Others are brilliant at adapting.
Cameron Johnson
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In snowboarding, I've always looked at really strong competitors through a lens of gratitude rather than envy in the sense that the better my competition is, the more it forces me to work hard, focus, and be better myself if I want to succeed, which I do.
Amy Purdy
