Competition Quotes

My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition. (Indira Gandhi)
The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting in above-average effort. View quote
Colin Powell
The unrestricted competition so commonly advocated does not leave us the survival of the fittest. The unscrupulous succeed best in accumulating wealth. View quote
Rutherford B. Hayes
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. View quote
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood. View quote
George S. Patton
Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim. View quote
Bertrand Russell
Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress. View quote
Herbert Hoover
Free competition is worth more to society than it costs. View quote
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living. View quote
Thomas Hobbes
The problem with competition is that it takes away the requirement to set your own path, to invent your own method, to find a new way. View quote
Seth Godin
Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition - in having to put forth the best within you. (Henry J. Kaiser)
Every man, as long as he does not violate the laws of justice, is left perfectly free to pursue his own interest his own way, and to bring both his industry and capital into competition with those of any other man or order of men. View quote
Adam Smith
The only way to beat the competition is to stop trying to beat the competition. View quote
W. Chan Kim
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. View quote
John Bates Clark
The delicate and intricate pattern of competition and cooperation in the economic behavior of the hundreds of thousands of citizens of Stockholm offers a challenge to the economist that is perhaps as complex as the challenges of the physicist and the chemist. View quote
George Stigler
There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there. View quote
Indira Gandhi
A child free from the guilt of ownership and the burden of economic competition will grow up with the will to do what needs doing and the capacity for joy in doing it. It is useless work that darkens the heart. The delight of the nursing mother, of the scholar, of the successful hunter, of the good cook, of the skilful maker, of anyone doing needed work and doing it well, - this durable joy is perhaps the deepest source of human affection and of sociality as a whole. View quote
Ursula K. Le Guin
So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on; and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die; that is to say, civilization will die. View quote
William Morris
I've never felt any sense of competition with anybody, and we're all friends. We're all good friends. View quote
Jim Henson
Whoever claims that economic competition represents survival of the fittest in the sense of the law of the jungle, provides the clearest possible evidence of his lack of knowledge of economics. View quote
George Reisman
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. (Walter Cronkite)
I'm an ambitious person. I never consider myself in competition with anyone, and I'm not saying that from an arrogant standpoint, it's just that my journey started so, so long ago, and I'm still on it and I won't stand still. View quote
Idris Elba
A state that denies its citizens their basic rights becomes a danger to its neighbors as well internal arbitrary rule will be reflected in arbitrary external relations. The suppression of public opinion, the abolition of public competition for power and its public exercise opens the way for the state power to arm itself in any way it sees fit. A state that does not hesitate to lie to its own people will not hesitate to lie to other states. View quote
Václav Havel
An artist is somebody who enters into competition with God. View quote
Patti Smith
The devil is the father of lies, but he neglected to patent the idea, and the business now suffers from competition. View quote
Josh Billings