Competition Quotes - Page 8

I want to wage war against illiteracy, poverty, unemployment, unfair competition, communitarianism, delinquency.

We humans have always sought to increase our personal energy in the only manner we have known, by seeking to psychologically steal it from the others--an unconscious competition that underlies all human conflict in the world.

This is the standard procedure for corporate growth these days; one company buys up another on loans that are floated on the basis of future earnings, and the monopoly or oligopoly created in this way produces the necessary funds by squeezing out competition, and passing the costs along to the consumer. The bucket that holds the new wealth is called a corporation.

If you are going to bluff, make it a big one.

You must get rid of the thought of competition. You are to create, not to compete for what is already created.

Something must be done when you find an opposing set of desires of this kind well to the fore in your category of strong desires. You must set in operation a process of competition, from which one must emerge a victor and the other set be defeated.

There are only two kinds of businesses in this world: Businesses in crazy competition, and businesses that are one of a kind.

All failed companies are the same: they failed to escape competition.

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.

I really believe that women have much easier access to their souls than men do. Because as men we're taught to wear masks, to drown out our emotions in competition and making money. Now women are being forced to do that too. But I admire their capacity to bear their spirituality so much more deeply than men.

Why do we wrap things? Usually to protect them. The more fragile they are, the more important the wrapping. Your dream is prey to many perils. It may shatter under the blows of criticism, evaporate with competition's heat, sink to the bottomless depths of others' indifference. Tend to your dream. Protect it as you would a fallen nestling. Until the day when it—and you—will fly.

Competition, which is the instinct of selfishness, is another word for dissipation of energy, while combination is the secret of efficient production.

When you begin moving toward excellence, you will find very little competition. You're competing with only 20% of the population.

Let us show the world that a difference of opinion upon medical subjects is not incompatible with medical friendships; and in so doing, let us throw the whole odium of the hostility of physicians to each other upon their competition for business and money.

The competition of social power with State power is always disadvantaged, since the State can arrange the terms of competition to suit itself, even to the point of outlawing any exercise of social power whatever in the premises; in other words, giving itself a monopoly.

Antitrust law isn't about protecting competing businesses from each other, it's about protecting competition itself on behalf of the public.

Continued innovation is the best way to beat the competition.

When I go in to compete, whether it's gymnastics or anything else, I do my own thing. I compete with myself.

Don't bother doing something unless you're radically different from the competition.

To go into a competition and not strive to win is to be a dishonest competitor.

You do a period of go-karting until you're at the age of qualifying for a ride in a 'school-kart,' then you qualify for driving school. And several of the driving schools have a competition series for their own students.

Playing against better competition makes you better and more focused, so you can do what you have to, to win.

Where we can compete on merit, we do very well.

Competition is like experimentation in science, a discovery process, and it must rely on the self interest of producers, it must allow them to use their knowledge for their purposes, because nobody else possesses the information

The marathon is a charismatic event. It has everything. It has drama, competition, camaraderie & heroism