Competition Quotes - Page 4

We've been raised to compete, to want more! More! More! It's a way of life. It's about greed.

We should know that only replacing the economics of competition and greed with the economics of equitable cooperation will guarantee a globalization that takes advantage of potential efficiency gains in ways that also promote environmental protection, international equity, economic democracy, and variety.

I long for the days when grosses were not even known. There was no weekend competition.

Don't ever let anyone tell you that something is too competitive. Once you subtract the people who don't work very hard, or the people who aren't as good as you, your competition shrinks dramatically.

Chiropractic has helped keep me injury free - that is half the trick to staying in competition.

Competition is a painful thing, but it produces great results.

We have to re-invent socialism. It can't be the kind of socialism that we saw in the Soviet Union, but it will emerge as we develop new systems that are built on cooperation, not competition.

With competition everyone has to try harder.

The great thing about serving the poor is that there is no competition.

When you’ve done everything you can to train yourself for competition, you’ll sleep well when the tournament is over, win or lose.

The Breakfast of Champions isn't cereal, it's the competition!

We are moving from a chain of command to a web of connection, from competition to collaboration, from markets to networks and stockholders to stakeholders, and greed to green.

The life contest is primarily a competition for available energy.

The moment one brings competition into music, the soul is lost.

Super-successf ul people aren’t the most gifted people in their fields. They just work, study and practice more than the competition.

Steroids can seem necessary to compete at the highest levels, and the quick rewards can outweigh the long term consequences to the user's health.

Set higher standards for your own performance than anyone else around you, and your only competition will be with yourself

I had been offered fellowships to enter as a graduate student at either Harvard or Princeton. But the Princeton fellowship was somewhat more generous, since I had not actually won the Putnam competition... Thus Princeton became the choice for my graduate study location.

Set higher standards for you own performance than anyone around you, and it won't matter whether you have a tough boss or an easy one. It won't matter whether the competition is pushing you hard, because you'll be competing with yourself.

In the beginning it wasn't bodybuilding competition that motivated me, it was just getting muscles and getting big. And certainly it has evolved for me since then. I think I'm still evolving.

Never compete, create.

Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.

We are superior to the competition because we hire employees who work in an environment of belonging and purpose. We foster a climate where the employee can deliver what the customer wants. You cannot deliver what the customer wants by controlling the employee.

Advertising is the modern substitute for argument, its function is to make the worse appear the better article. A confused competition of all propagandas -- those insults to human nature -- is carried on by the most expert psychological methods -- for instance, by always repeating a lie.

Vanity, fear, desire, competition - all such distortions within our own egos - condition our vision of those in relation to us. Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other.