Quotes on Competition

The Beatles had just come out, and everybody had a band. It was incredible competition out there.

Author: Gregg Allman

The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself.

Author: Washington Allston

It was a natural process, because when we go to the ring we are human beings, but once you feel the punches and the competition that's when the beast comes out and takes hold of us.

Author: Alexis Arguello

They will come to learn in the end, at their own expense, that it is better to endure competition for rich customers than to be invested with monopoly over impoverished customers.

Author: Frederic Bastiat

We are on pace this year to have a trade deficit that is larger than $800 billion. We have never faced that before, but we continue to put forward trade agreements like these that leave us naked to competition that is neither free nor fair.

Author: Xavier Becerra

I have no problem with battling for a position. I have no problem trying to beat somebody out. It's a sport, competition, so I'm used to it.

Author: Chris Bell

Guys aren't threatening. Other girls are the competition. You are usually what they're fighting over.

Author: Jonathan Bennett

I believe in competition.

Author: Craig Benson

I don't have a sense of entitlement or that I deserve this. You'd be surprised at the lack of competition between nominees - I think a lot of it's imposed from the outside. Can I have my champagne now?

Author: Cate Blanchett

No more pronouncements on lousy verse. No more hidden competition. No more struggling not to be a square.

Author: Louise Bogan

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

Author: Ludwig Borne

I think I tried to separate indoors and out. And so when he beat me indoors, I did not see that as letting anybody down, I saw it as a good head to head competition, and so it was. It was fine.

Author: Ralph Boston

At the end of the competition, I played the Liszt concerto and I felt my head was on the block. Well, I won.

Author: Andre Boucourechliev

A lot of it had to do with when it's released and what's out in the marketplace, what's its competition.

Author: Jerry Bruckheimer

The Olympics are always a special competition, it is very difficult to predict what will happen.

Author: Sergei Bubka

As a Republican, I am all for competition.

Author: Michael Burgess

In the tail above the giant resonance, you can get not just one neutron emitted but two, three, four or five, and so there are a lot of things one can measure, looking at the competition with the emission of neutrons and protons and so on.

Author: John Carver

I dig all kinds of competition.

Author: Randy Castillo

When we say that the persistence of competition is ensured by fate, we mean that individual freedom is so guaranteed. The one thing to which fate binds us is liberty.

Author: John Clark

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

Author: Henry Clay

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.

Author: Sasha Cohen

There are many examples in high schools which show something about the effects such competition might have.

Author: James Coleman

Whenever the competition is sleeping is when I shine.

Author: Kim Collins

So I think instead of focusing on the competition, focus on the customer.

Author: Scott Cook

And I've always - the competition is one aspect of the job, but I think if you're too busy worrying about the competition, you don't focus enough on what you're doing.

Author: Katie Couric

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.

Author: Simon Cowell

I think it is absolutely essential in a democracy to have competition in the media, a lot of competition, and we seem to be moving away from that.

Author: Walter Cronkite

They gave me away as a prize once - a Win Tony Curtis For A Weekend competition. The woman who won was disappointed. She'd hoped for second prize - a new stove.

Author: Tony Curtis

I was always talking about what I could and would do, and you would always make rhymes about the competion even though we werent thinking about competition.

Author: Kool Dee

Because we're sponsored by competing breweries there is always competition. When we were both fighting for ninth or 10th place, nobody really cared except the two companies.

Author: Larry Dixon

I'm a free market person, a free trader. But if we had a market in California, there would be competition.

Author: Anna Eshoo

There are 20 million unemployed and what does the Constitution offer us in the Europe of 25, 27 and soon to be 30: policies of unrestricted competition to the detriment of production, wages, research and innovation.

Author: Laurent Fabius

I loved tests because it was another form of competing, a healthy competition.

Author: Suzanne Farrell

Good will is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.

Author: Marshall Field

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

Author: Marshall Field

It's a tough world out there and all the guys are fighting hard and the competition is really tough.

Author: Guy Forget

We had a great group of guys when I was there, five of us, I think. It's a great competition. Every practice was hard. I think that's helped us a lot, everybody that was there.

Author: Peter Forsberg

Our employers today face numerous challenges and stiff competition from businesses all over the world.

Author: Jim Gerlach

The Champions League is the competition everyone wants to be in.

Author: Steven Gerrard

Imports create competition and keep domestic industry more responsive to consumers. In the United States, we import everything consumers want. So why not pharmaceuticals?

Author: Chuck Grassley

With competition everyone has to try harder.

Author: Harold Greene

Competition is good and has served us well.

Author: Harold Greene

I mean, the competition is really created by the buzz around the Emmys. It's a totally subjective thing.

Author: Michael Hall

There were no competitions on television. The first skating competition I ever remember seeing on television was the 1968 Olympics when Peggy Fleming won.

Author: Dorothy Hamill

From the fall of October, 1980 to March, 1984 I never lost a competition.

Author: Scott Hamilton

You can mostly forget ethnic or religious differences. The competition for a bigger share of the oil proceeds is behind much of the fighting.

Author: Ed Harris

Microsoft is engaging in unlawful predatory practices that go well beyond the scope of fair competition.

Author: Orrin Hatch

No, there's not much competition between puppeteers in general because everybody's working their own style.

Author: Jim Henson

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

Author: Jim Henson

Value is consequently the necessary theoretical starting point whence we can elucidate the peculiar phenomenon of prices resulting from capitalist competition.

Author: Rudolf Hiferding

The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.

Author: Thomas Hobbes

If you're not making mistakes, you're not taking risks, and that means you're not going anywhere. The key is to make mistakes faster than the competition, so you have more changes to learn and win.

Author: John Holt, Jr.

The stadiums are like none I've ever seen. I think there must have been some strong competition nationally between Korea and Japan to make the best facilities because they are very well designed.

Author: Lamar Hunt

We've outpaced Japan and Europe in creating new jobs, but there's major competition from India and China. It's not enough to make income tax cuts permanent.

Author: Ernest Istook

I kinda see everyone as competition. I'm a very competitive person. But I think that's good. Competition is great. And as long as it's friendly and not a malicious thing, then I think it's cool.

Author: Janet Jackson

The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Author: Anna Jameson

Deep inside, I was hoping I'd win: The competition was tough, but I learned from other's mistakes.

Author: Nafisa Joseph

Interleaf is very nice. I expect there to be a lot of competition for programs like that.

Author: Bill Joy

Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition - in having put forth the best within you.

Author: Henry Kaiser

I sometimes wonder what would've happened if I'd entered the competition instead - I'd probably have come nowhere and given up on the whole fiction game.

Author: Paul Kane

When I broke in, in 1957, it was wide open. Now you're up against strong competition.

Author: Larry King

I'd been ready too, because before Olympic Games, I wasn't compete in big competition like, World Championship, like European Championship. I just competed in national competition.

Author: Olga Korbut

Because up to sixteen years old you feel gymnastics more. You can show your emotion, grace, like woman gymnastics, not kid's gymnastics. I feel I have good shape, and I can do it elements everything, but, it's not competition for me.

Author: Olga Korbut

Global competition is about winners and losers.

Author: David Korten

Competition is very good... as long as its healthy. It's what makes one strive to be better.

Author: Christine Lahti

Airlines go in the long run at the competition to reason. For the passenger the competition is good, because each competitor tries to undercut the other one.

Author: Niki Lauda

We see ourselves as first helping to open up markets to competition.

Author: Kenneth Lay

Our role is to maintain and monitor a framework in which fair competition can flourish.

Author: Arthur Levitt

The tension between centrality, on the one hand, and competition, on the other, is probably the oldest of all market structure issues.

Author: Arthur Levitt

It's not rage that drives me, it's competition.

Author: Lennox Lewis

There will be a competition for the memorial. And then it can be developed with trees, with planting. It can become a very beautiful place protected from the streets, because it is below. And it can be something very moving and very private.

Author: Daniel Libeskind

Encourage kids to enjoy running and play in athletics. Don't force them to run too much competition.

Author: Arthur Lydiard

The Olympic Games is the ultimate level of competition.

Author: Russell Mark

Whenever you face a man who's playing your instrument, there's a competition.

Author: Wynton Marsalis

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.

Author: Karl Marx

I think competition is very important; it breeds many good things in a person.

Author: Brian McBride

So the competition isn't once you got the license, running the station; it's getting the license.

Author: Robert McChesney

I think it's really important to look at the big picture instead of just one competition.

Author: Shannon Miller

Reference to the territory and total disregard for the nationality of the companies is of course the best guarantee that competition assessment remain just that and doesn't get affected by trade or other considerations.

Author: Mario Monti

Unless a player goes in for intensive play and tournament competition, two racquets are sufficient.

Author: Helen Moody

One of my major competitors was Harold Smith. Smith beat me in 1977. I was loafing during that competition.

Author: Edwin Moses

And what it depends on, of course, is whether the story itself is worth the ethical compromise it requires and whether the competition is onto the story.

Author: Roger Mudd

The whole competition thing disturbs me. Not that I wasn't a part of it when I first started.

Author: George Murray

I ride my horse at competition level.

Author: Alannah Myles

Olympics is global competition in which eighty, ninety, hundred, hundred and ten countries participate.

Author: George Pataki

Well, it's still another two-day competition, so it's really important to show that you're ready. Every meet is really important right now. You've got to keep showing you can hit.

Author: Carly Patterson

I think we all have had better days in competition.

Author: Carly Patterson

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.

Author: Jeff Probst

Today, the competition is considerably more intense.

Author: Bobby Rahal

The competition is pretty rough these days.

Author: Tony Randall

Europe should stick to an open economy, to competition and we should refuse protectionism. It will not save one single job in the long run to protect non-competitive industries.

Author: Anders Rasmussen

Most of the competition was into bulk popcorn because of the major increases in the Drive-In Theatre Outlets.

Author: Orville Redenbacher

Murdoch paid too much for the Wall Street Journal even when he didn't have any competition.

Author: Sumner Redstone

Competition is a sin.

Author: John Rockefeller

Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.

Author: Franklin Roosevelt

I started singing at the Met when I was seven, and the competition was so fierce that it really prepared me.

Author: Emily Rossum

Hence we did not foster competition in our school, on the contrary.

Author: Dora Russell

Now a movie goes out to two, three thousand theaters and by Friday night at 10 o'clock they know if you are in or out. That desperate competition is, I think, horrendous. It's awful.

Author: Mark Rydell

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

Author: Mark Rydell

The stark reality facing us today is that without the labour reforms, workers will get neither the income nor jobs in the face of cut-throat global economic competition.

Author: Kim Sam

Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.

Author: Fulton Sheen

Competition is the final price determinant and competitive prices may result in profits which force you to accept a rate of return less than you hoped for, or for that matter to accept temporary losses.

Author: Alfred Sloan

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

Author: Peter Snell

Indeed, we must foster cost-saving competition. And that means joining the marketplace of other industrialized countries - not just for the manufacturers who sell drugs, but for consumers as well.

Author: Olympia Snowe

Well, nine times out of ten when you have 2 or 3 stars in a household you have an unfortunate amount of competition that's not necessarily a healthy competition.

Author: Edwin Starr

I don't know if it's just me or everyone, but the whole vibe with skiing is not so much thriving on competition against others as it is against myself and the clock.

Author: Picabo Street

The competition is so fierce once you become an adult. I'll probably move on to something else.

Author: Jodie Sweetin

They demanded a monopoly of the coasting trade, in order to get higher freights than they could get in open competition with the carriers of the world.

Author: Robert Toombs

But we're all so different, we're different ages; we're not vying for the same roles. There's no competition, there's really kind of a sisterhood, on and off the set, you know?

Author: Jeanne Tripplehorn

The only thing that's changed is the competitiveness of the series. It's only become harder to win in our series as the years have gone by. Competition breeds good things, and that's what's happened here.

Author: Al Unser

What was the competition? Well, I remember this Puerto Rican who came out in a short skirt and a gun.

Author: Sarah Vaughan

Sure, but competition is good for the user.

Author: Wietse Venema

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

Author: Vernor Vinge

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.

Author: Bobby Vinton

I'm in competition with myself and I'm losing.

Author: Roger Waters

We can't worry about competition. Besides, you aren't competing with anyone but yourself. They have nothing to do with whether you make a good movie or not.

Author: Chris Wedge

Number one, cash is king... number two, communicate... number three, buy or bury the competition.

Author: Jack Welch

The Olympics are a wonderful metaphor for world cooperation, the kind of international competition that's wholesome and healthy, an interplay between countries that represents the best in all of us.

Author: John Williams

The capitalists speculate on the two following factors: the female worker must be paid as poorly as possible and the competition of female labour must be employed to lower the wages of male workers as much as possible.

Author: Clara Zetkin

The only way to succeed is to outwork, outsmart, and outshine the competition.

Author: Samantha Harris

Winning doesn't always mean being first. Sometimes, winning means you're doing better than you've ever done before.

Author: Jennifer Bonacorsa

Winning doesn't always mean being first. Winning means you're doing better than you've done before.

Author: Bonnie Blair

Life is a journey best traveled with compassion rather than competition.

Author: Samantha King

The flower does not compete with the beauty of the butterfly, for they both add vibrancy to the garden of life.

Author: Lily Chang

Challenge yourself to be better than you were yesterday, not better than anyone else.

Author: Harper Patel

Winning requires both strategy and determination, like a game of chess played with our hearts.

Author: Sophia Hernandez

A flower does not compete with the other flowers, it simply blooms.

Author: Jasmine Green

Chase after your dreams, not the competition.

Author: Samantha Jones

Success is not defined by the number of wins but by the courage to keep playing.

Author: Samantha Porter

Chase your dreams not the competition.

Author: Samantha Greene

Success is not about winning every battle, but about staying strong in the struggle.

Author: Maria Rodriguez

In the world of competition, those who are resilient will always have the last laugh.

Author: Sarah Johnson

Do not be afraid to compete against the best, for it will bring out the best in you.

Author: Serena Williams

Remember, a little competition stimulates all the right juices!

Author: Sam Malina

Success isn't just having the trophy; it’s also celebrating everyone you outran to get it.

Author: Sarah Jensen