Competition Quotes
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The 20th century was all about hierarchies: if you want to create something, if you want to start a country, create a product, whatever it is. Your goal is to create a highly efficient hierarchical model, scale it, because that's what the competition's doing.
Chris Fussell -
Persons of slender intellectual stamina dread competition, as dwarfs are afraid of being run over in the street.
William Hazlitt
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I was looking for something like baseball, where there's a lot of data and the competition was pretty low. That's when I discovered politics.
Nate Silver -
With less competition to fear, companies are emboldened to raise their mark-ups and profits. That lifts share prices and thus the wealth of already wealthy shareholders.
Edmund Phelps -
I'm all for competition; competition is good. I just want to make sure the playing field is level.
Leanne Caret -
I think it's funny because on 'Glee Project,' there's that added pressure, but with 'Glee,' there's no element of competition. No one's trying to dance better than anyone. But there's that added pressure of, 'So many people are going to watch 'Glee' this week. If I don't nail this dance, I look like an idiot.'
Samuel Larsen -
I'm more of a 'competitor'; I like to go in the ring and let people judge the competition.
Bill Goldberg -
No one intimidates me because I'm not trying to do what you do, because I can't do what you do. I can only do what Mary J. Blige can do, so that relaxes me right there, and it gets me out of the competition and that whole thing.
Mary J. Blige
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Number one, cash is king... number two, communicate... number three, buy or bury the competition.
Jack Welch -
DJs are in incredible competition, musically. And they are the most musically creative and sensitive people in all the music charts. I am amazed how they are.
Yoko Ono -
Microsoft is engaging in unlawful predatory practices that go well beyond the scope of fair competition.
Orrin Hatch -
If he is knocked out of the competition, he encourages his brothers with his words and presence.
Pierre de Coubertin -
During my time I had some very difficult years, and I had very pronounced competition, all by men.
Ada Yonath -
I love competition because I've always run faster when somebody was running next to me.
Betty Wright
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The more hardcore conservative you are, the more tightly identified you are with defending the interest of capital as an interest of the system based on hyper-competition, the more likely it is that you vehemently deny climate change. Because if climate change is real, your worldview will come crashing down around you.
Naomi Klein -
The easy way to make money is to get special political privilege. From the beginning of time, business has cozied up to government and gotten restrictions on competition and subsidies and stuff.
Charles Koch -
Competition for the sake not of destroying one another, but for the sake of bettering and improving both competitors as a result of the competition.
Woodie Flowers -
If every other store in town is paying workers $9 an hour, one offering $8 will find it hard to hire anyone - perhaps not when unemployment is high, but certainly in normal times. Robust competition is a powerful force helping to ensure that workers are paid what they contribute to their employers' bottom lines.
Christina Romer -
The Christian market has less competition and lower standards.
Jerry B. Jenkins -
See, as much as I love the game, golf was my vehicle to competition. And I love to compete.
Jack Nicklaus
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What kept me going through all the years? More than anything, the love of and respect for competition. That's what it comes down to for me. That's why I do this.
Lesley Visser -
As a father, I believe that involving children in sports at a young age is generally, a wise proposition. I believe that healthy competition is... well... healthy; that sporting events foster a spirit of teamwork that far surpasses the events themselves; and that active participation keeps children moving and is good for their self-esteem.
Naveen Jain -
Would you like the oldest, most historically significant athletic competition the world has ever known, attracting athletes from every known nation on the face of the planet to come here and perform at the peak of their abilities, in the very city where you live? Most British people go, 'Where will we park?!'
Marcus Brigstocke -
Everything I chose, I had already played in concert. For the competition, I wanted to pick pieces I know that people like.
Van Cliburn