Competition Quotes - page 2

If you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is too. Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think. (T. Harv Eker)
Competition in armament, both land and naval, is not only a terrible burden upon the people, but I believe it to be one of the greatest menaces to the peace of the world. View quote
Frank B. Kellogg
You can mostly forget ethnic or religious differences. The competition for a bigger share of the oil proceeds is behind much of the fighting. View quote
Ed Harris
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. View quote
Alfred P. Sloan
Competition is very good... as long as its healthy. It's what makes one strive to be better. View quote
Christine Lahti
For me, half the joy of achieving has been the struggle and the fight, the pitting myself against the world and all its competition - and winning. View quote
Conrad Veidt
Global competition is about winners and losers. View quote
David Korten
A good athlete always mentally replays a competition over and over, even in victory, to see what might be done to improve the performance the next time. View quote
Frank Shorter
Well, being that, at the house and being in the competition, it was very hard to be with family. We couldn't have visitors out of respect for everyone else there. But, being the American Idol, the focus would have been on me. View quote
LaToya London
Competition is such a virtue, and everybody's so busy competing, they have no time for compassion. View quote
Major Owens
After the Great Depression and after public urging, a nationwide public competition was held to determine a design for a memorial that would honor President Thomas Jefferson's bold vision for westward expansion for America. (Russ Carnahan)
I think it's really important to look at the big picture instead of just one competition. View quote
Shannon Miller
Science would be ruined if (like sports) it were to put competition above everything else, and if it were to clarify the rules of competition by withdrawing entirely into narrowly defined specialties. The rare scholars who are nomads-by-choice are essential to the intellectual welfare of the settled disciplines. View quote
Benoît Mandelbrot
I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition. View quote
Fidel Castro
One of the biggest lies in capitalism is that companies like competition. They don't. Nobody likes competition. View quote
Eliot Spitzer
To my knowledge significant progress has never been born of competition. ... In science, being 'better' than others is of little practical value. Examples of how absurd the idea of scientific competition is are abundant. View quote
Heinrich Rohrer
All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost - the most legitimate - passion nature has bred into us and, without doubt, the most agreeable one. View quote
Marquis de Sade
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. View quote
John Williams
The concept of free competition enforced by law is a grotesque contradiction in terms. View quote
Ayn Rand
Competition is merely the absence of oppression. View quote
Frédéric Bastiat
It is, then, the strife of all honorable men and women of the twentieth century to see that in the future competition of the races the survival of the fittest shall mean the triumph of the good, the beautiful, and the true; that we may be able to preserve for future civilization all that is really fine and noble and strong, and not continue to put a premium on greed and imprudence and cruelty. (W. E. B. Du Bois)
You wanna know what scares people? Success. When you don't make moves and when you don't climb up the ladder, everybody loves you because you're not competition. View quote
Nicki Minaj
The pressure people put on themselves and the rivalry between the teams is much more marked. And I think that's a good thing. As long as that rivalry remains within the spirit of competition, it con only spur everyone on. View quote
Eric Cantona
... 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. View quote
Jane Addams
A drastic reduction in weapons competition following a general release from the commitment to the Cold War would be sharply in conflict with the needs of the industrial system. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith