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Competition Quotes - Page 5

Competition is a sin.

John D. Rockefeller (2015). “John D. Rockefeller on Making Money: Advice and Words of Wisdom on Building and Sharing Wealth”, p.4, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

I set my standards so high, no one could be harsher on me than I was.

Jim Brown, Steve Delsohn (1990). “Out of Bounds”, Kensington Publishing Corporation

If you're attacking your market from multiple positions and your competition isn't, you have all the advantage and it will show up in your increased success and income.

Jay Abraham (2000). “Getting Everything You Can Out of All You've Got: 21 Ways You Can Out-Think, Out-Perform, and Out-Earn the Competition”, p.14, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux

Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge.

Speech to the Third Army on June 05, 1944. "The Unknown Patton". Book by Charles M. Province, p. 32, www.pattonhq.com. 1983.

Killing is fundamentally in our nature because over the eons of human evolution murder was so surprisingly beneficial in the intense game of reproductive competition.

"Professor Conducted A Huge Study To Find Out Why People Kill" by Erin Fuchs, www.businessinsider.com. February 17, 2013.

You can't have public health without a public health system. We just don't want to be part of a mindless competition for resources. We want to build back capacity in the system.

"Q&A: Dr. Paul Farmer and Ophelia Dahl on recovery efforts in Haiti". Interview with Molly Hennessy-Fiske, latimesblogs.latimes.com. January 29, 2011.

So long as it stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in open and free competition without deception or fraud.

Milton Friedman (2009). “Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition”, p.133, University of Chicago Press

I've never been an individual guy. I never cared about the accolades. I've always been driven by the competition and the learning process.

"Kevin Garnett: 'I never cared about the accolades'". Interview with Marc J. Spears, sports.yahoo.com. December 31, 2012.