Competition Quotes

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

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

When I go out on the ice, I just think about my skating. I forget it is a competition.

There was no publicity. You had to like it. There was no pressure, just great competition. The attitude of the coaches and players was exceptional.

The biggest challenge in business is not the competition, it's what goes on inside your own head

I don't rank competitions - every single one is the Olympics to me.

The marathon is a competition between your will and your possibilities

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

Today, the forces of competition, technology, and globalization have converged to spur innovation and to transform the way business is done in the securities industry.

The object of this competition is not to be mean to the losers but to find a winner. The process makes you mean because you get frustrated.

You, and you alone, are the person who should take the measure of your own success. . . . I do not try to be better than anyone else. I only try to be better than myself.

By overhauling current rules and speeding the entry of competitors in the market, we encourage competition and provide our constituents with new choices and cheaper bills.

I will always be someone who wants to do better than others. I love competition.

Once you make a mistake in a fight or competition you never do that again.

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

I want to be the first lady to land a quadruple jump in competition. As I grow older, I know that my skating style will develop and mature.

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

In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running; if you stand still, they will swallow you.

I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it.

Since I became a novelist I have discovered that I am biased. Either I think a new novel is worse than mine and I don’t like it, or I suspect it is better than my novels and I don’t like it.

In business, competition is never as healthy as total domination.

You learn so much from competition you gain confidence every time you have to step up and perform

A good relationship is a competition of generosity.

If you keep groaning, please do it to a rythmn I can dance to.

I live for competition. It makes my life complete.

You've got to look for tough competition. You've got to want to beat the best.

I love competition and really going for it and doing my best, but losing isn't really upsetting to me. I feel like if I do lose, the other person really deserved it.

Running became boring because it's so predictable. I got to a point where I knew what my competition could do.

This dream that men shall cease to waste strength in competition and shall come to pool their powers of production is coming to pass all over the earth.

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

People now, especially with the Internet, are connected. They have an expectation of behaviour, of accountability, avoiding conflict and fair and just competition.

I'm a great believer in the competitive system, and think that competition will bring us greater innovation and put American industry in information ahead of everyone also.

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

Whenever competition is feasible it is, for all its imperfections, superior to regulation as a means of serving the public interest.

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

I am in competition only with my father and my uncle (Mukesh Bhatt) because they taught me what I know today. I only believe in making movies with integrity.

A merchant who approaches business with the idea of serving the public well has nothing to fear from the competition.

Nature is based on harmony. So it says if we want to survive and become more like nature, then we actually have to understand that it's cooperation versus competition.

Competition is what keeps me playing the psychological warfare of matching skill against skill and wit against wit.

Friendship first, competition second.

Anybody with a good sense of humor is one-up on their competition. We respond to somebody who has the ability to make us laugh. It's a bonding influence.

Don't steal - the government hates competition!

Everyone likes a bit of competition.

The easy way to make money is to get special political privilege. From the beginning of time, business has cozied up to government and gotten restrictions on competition and subsidies and stuff.

My greatest competition is, well, me.

Militarism is in direct competition with people's needs for food, health care, and environmental protection.

The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together.

The livelihood of the restaurant is dependent upon getting the word out. There's so much more competition. You can do an event every week and not cook at all.

Because the sport has changed, competition is not only stronger but it's deeper throughout the field than it's ever been. It's harder to win.

Acting is not a competition; everything must be done for the good of the film or else everybody loses.