Competition Quotes - Page 13

Competition in academia is so vicious because the stakes are so small.

The wise man doesn't compete; therefore nobody can compete with him.

I'm playing against great players, playing against the best in the world. The competition-that's what I've always wanted.

Kenya is risking sanctions from international competition because international organisations think we are not addressing the problem in line with world best practice.

The player can only compete with the best internationally when they've committed themselves to this goal. They have to be properly supported until that point.

The Olympics are a wonderful metaphor for world cooperation, the kind of international competition that's wholesome and healthy, an interplay between countries that represents the best in all of us.

Unregulated competition is a naive metaphor for anarchy.

Technological advances have always been driven more by a mind-set of 'I can' than 'I should' Technologists love to cram maximum functionality into their products. That's 'I can' thinking, which is driven by peer competition and market forces But this approach ignores the far more important question of how the consumer will actually use the device focus on what we should be doing, not just what we can.

Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress.

We are so accustomed to the miracle of private enterprise that we habitually take it for granted. But how does private industry solve the incredibly complex problem of turning out tens of thousands of different goods and services in the proportions in which they are wanted by the public? ... It solves these problems through the institutions of private property, competition, the free market, and the existence of money - through the interrelations of supply and demand, costs and prices, profits and losses.

Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.

Like it or not, life is a series of competitions.

Grind it out. Hanging on just one second longer than your competition makes you the winner.

There is a tendency among some businesses to criticize and belittle their competitors. This is a bad procedure. Praise them. Learn from them. There are times when you can co-operate with them to their advantage and to yours! Speak well of them and they will speak well of you. You can't destroy good ideas. Take advantage of them.

Beware of that profound enemy of the free enterprise system who pays lip-service to free competition, but also labels every antitrust prosecution as a persecution.

Market competition is the only form of organization which can afford a large measure of freedom to the individual.

Viktor Petrenko and I met at a competition, where I beat him completely accidentally. I felt so embarrassed in front of my idol.

Competition is all about you. It's about feeding your selfish needs. It feeds the depravity of your heart.

Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

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.

The more heavily the government regulates the market, the more competition is impeded.

The only way to beat the competition is to stop trying to beat the competition

Believing that your competition is stronger and better than you pushes you to better yourselves.

Curiosity doesn't kill the cat; it kills the competition.

You are facing death and danger and competition, but at any moment, you can decide to have a fearless mindset.