Competition Quotes - Page 28

Don't steal; thou'lt never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.

Malfunctions are inevitable. It's important to push through them during practice - versus stopping to fix and restart - so that you're prepared for one mid-competition.

I don't underestimate the power of mental preparation throughout all of my training. I'm in a much better state of mind about competition.

I went to national piano competitions and did that whole circuit. Then I played professionally to support myself when I moved out to LA.

The most important part of this is to prepare the athlete for life in general and then be able to compete.

I am always fighting inside the Council to get the message across that at each competition venue, we should send somebody to inspect and to make sure the athletes will be looked after in a correct manner.

I don't believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better?

I don't compete with other discus throwers. I compete with my own history.

For 40 hours a week competition is awfully stiff but after that there's very little competition .

It's not the increasing competition; it's going back to real work that most of us complain about.

Our philosophy has been to be fiscally conservative, so we can be operationally aggressive. We're not using borrowed money to grow. So we'll put up a store just to get there before the competition. If it doesn't work, we'll close it and lose a little equity. It won't kill us.

A system must be managed. It will not manage itself. Left to themselves in the Western world, components become selfish, competitive. We cannot afford the destructive effect of competition.

If anybody reads a story in a magazine or book, different pictures compete in their minds.

I was never going to give Mariah Carey any competition.

Our competition is different. They're confused. They chased after netbooks. Now they're trying to make PCs into tablets and tablets into PCs. Who knows what they'll do next?

The only thing I smoke is my competition

The problem with competition is that it takes away the requirement to set your own path, to invent your own method, to find a new way.

There is a fair amount of competition, obviously, with ISIL and the terrorist networks around the world, China also posing a different kind of threat to the rules-based order.

I believe it is still true that conflicts among major powers usually stem from geopolitical rivalries but rarely from economic competition.

If you are a new startup company, try not to arouse the interest or suspicion of your competition; especially if they are a bigger company. They can crush you while you are still in your startup phase. Lie low while still strengthening your bottom line.

Competition, free enterprise, and an open market were never meant to be symbolic fig leaves for corporate socialism and monopolistic capitalism.

A competitive threat is not the same thing as an antitrust violation… It is difficult to make out FairSearch’s precise antitrust arguments. There are alternatives to ITA’s software: both the GDSs but also upstarts such as the U.K.’s Everbread Ltd., which has relationships with 60 low-cost carriers, and Vayant Travel Technologies LLC of New York. It isn’t clear, therefore, that competition would be reduced even if Googled didn’t honor ITA’s contracts with other travel companies.

In a competition of love we'll all share in the victory, no matter who comes first

Forcing free market plans to compete with these government-run programs would create an unlevel playing field and inevitably doom true competition.

The downfall of the industry is that there is a lot of pressure in it, a lot of rejection in it and a lot of competition in it. It's a whole mess.