Competition Quotes

Competition is overrated. In practice it is quite destructive and should be avoided wherever possible. Much better than fighting for scraps in existing markets is to create and own new ones.

I remember Mick Jagger asking me 'hey, how do you guys feel about us coming over here and taking all the play from you guys?' I said 'Well, in a way, you have eliminated all my competition.

The Internet is just bringing all kinds of information into the home. There's just a lot of distraction, a lot of competition for the parent's voice to resonate in the children's ears.

The fans love the home runs, the home run competition between Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa.

Monopolists who fear competition and who distrust democracy because it stands for equal opportunity would like to secure their position against small and energetic enterprise.

I was always really strict on myself about doing everything possible to prepare for competition.

It's never happened in the World Series competition, and it still hasn't.

I have found over the years that American soldiers and airmen thrive on competition.

Competition can be the most nerve-racking experience. Some people just thrive on it.

Art, like love, excludes all competition and absorbs the man.

Of all human powers operating on the affairs of mankind, none is greater than that of competition.

We humans have millions of years of evolutionary baggage that makes us regard competition in a deadly light.

In a society dominated by the fact of commercial competition, money is necessarily the test of prowess, and wastefulness the sole criterion of power.

The way for newspapers to meet the competition of radio and television is simply to get out better papers.

I don't think competition is good in music. What is good, is the desire and the ambition to create your best work.

Reality is a genre that seems to be here to stay. I don't know how many of the new shows will last, but the more competition you have, the harder that pie is to slice up.

It ain't the rain, the snow, the boss, the competition, the spouse, the money, the car, the job, or the kids - it's you! And it always has been.

It was bad enough to have toppled from the Olympic heights to make my living competing with animals. But the competition wasn't even fair. No man could beat a race horse, not even for 100 yards.

What was that you were saying just before the food arrived? Something about me... no competition... best thing that ever happened to you.

But golf being an international game and everybody loving the game the way they do, if you want to spread the game of golf, it's good that you have great competition.

Messi doesn't have to do it in the Premier League to prove himself. The Champions League is the ultimate club competition. If he was in the Premier League, he'd be the best player by some distance.

Vouchers lead to competition, not re-segregation.

I've never felt any sense of competition with anybody, and we're all friends. We're all good friends.

Complexity - limits competition.

I have some women friends but I prefer men. Dont trust women. There is a built-in competition between women.

Creativity is one of the last remaining legal ways of gaining an unfair advantage over the competition.

Government and cooperation are in all things the laws of life. Anarchy and competition, the laws of death.

The marketers can compete with free; it just has to be better. Look at bottled water if you don't believe me.

One thing is sure: if you want running fast in competition, you must run fast in training. The problem is WHEN and HOW, not IF.

You have to compete with others in the field. Sometimes the competition gets pretty fierce because you're competing for funds or grants to do your work, the financial work.

In today's global economy, however, it is important to raise the bar of excellence even higher. Today's students must be prepared to compete effectively on an international level.

At some point you're like, gosh, this rehab is never going to end, and then all of a sudden I'm full strength and I'm about to go to my first competition. So I feel really great.

Anytime you lose one fight in the UFC, you kind of have to feel like you are on the chopping block. There is so much competition in this sport.

Fierce national competition over water resources has prompted fears that water issues contain the seeds of violent conflict.

In order to win, you have to be aggressive - with your car, with the racetrack, and with the competition. But you don't have to be stupid about it.

I think we all have had better days in competition.

A really important part of competition is coming back, trying to do it better the second time than you did the first.

I've never really done acting before, 'cause dancing was my first love. And then, I sort of fell into it from a talent competition and never really looked back.

The competition to hire the best will increase in the years ahead. Companies that give extra flexibility to their employees will have the edge in this area.

The concept of free competition enforced by law is a grotesque contradiction in terms.

No competition, no progress.

Those fighting for free enterprise and free competition do not defend the interests of those rich today. They want a free hand left to unknown men who will be the entrepreneurs of tomorrow.

With competition there is always ego and hubris... competition gets in the way of work.

It don't matter what competition it is. I make it all look easy.

It is merely a metaphor to call competition competitive war, or simply, war. The function of battle is destruction; of competition, construction.

All happy companies are different: each one earns a monopoly by solving a unique problem. All failed companies are the same: they failed to escape competition.

The stimulus of competition, when applied at an early age to real thought processes, is injurious both to nerve-power and to scientific insight.

It's been very hard for the guitar as a serious synthesizer to compete with keyboards.

Companies aren’t families. They’re battlefields in a civil war.

Nobody's going to win all the time. On the highway of life you can't always be in the fast lane.