Competition Quotes

You have to start with the basic premise that you need to know what your competition is doing.

You can beat 80% of the competition just by showing up.

I think healthy competition is good for business, and really at the end best for end-users. Just think about what Android would have been if it was not for iPhone - a better blackberry?

I saw how the regulation I called for made things worse, didn't help consumers and simple competition was better. And I started praising business and occasionally criticizing regulation.

Competition is good for consumers for the simple reason that it compels producers to offer better deals - lower prices, better quality, new products, and more choice.

I think there was a lot competition in the rock scene.

I won’t even pretend I didn’t care. I wanted to win. I mean, if you don’t care about winning the competition, why show up?

The successful competitor, having been urged to compete, must not be turned upon when he wins.

India is scared of the competition... because Chinese goods will go into India and compete.

every one of us possesses a gene predisposing us toward rivalry, competition, and fits of envy with any past, present, or future siblings.

I made very sure that I did not get involved with any of the commercial Linux companies, exactly so that I would be neutral and not ever seen as "working for the competition".

One of the reasons why they are optimistic is that there is more competition. Red Bull has become more competitive, the races have become more attractive - and that is what fans want!

Free competition exists inside shelters of law, custom, insurance, political approval, and carefully protected status.

Competition in rowing doesn't just come from other countries. It comes from Wall Street, med school, law school. You think Harvard and Princeton grads want to live in Chula Vista?

Professional competitions are overrated.

Chief Justice [John] Roberts compared judges to umpires, who apply rules they did not write and cannot change to the competition before them.

There is always anxiety before a competition and it was no different for me today. It was only in the third round, with about 40 targets left, that I realised I could match the world record score.

I'm a prideful person when it comes to competition.

I am no stranger to healthy competition-wor king hard and playing hard

Competition for status is a zero sum game

I don't think I would want my children to enter into my profession. There's a lot of stress and so much competition. There are easier things you can do with your life.

The positive aspect of competition in a business scenario is it helps you to be more alert and innovative.

Every child should try everything: sport, music, art, mathematics; they can do it all. Copying and competition are now seen as twin evils, but they are both useful tools.

Death puts an end to rivalship and competition. The dead can boast no advantage over us, nor can we triumph over them.

Competition works best in sports, but humans get addicted to stuff.

Competition exists to choose who gets the prize when the prize can’t be shared.

Oftentimes winning can become an addiction, whether good or bad, to the point where you would rather lose it all before you lose at all.

That competition and the struggle for existence is the mechanism behind this state of perpetual change.

Strategy is about out-thinking your competition. Mark Zuckerberg, while at Harvard, built a website called Facemash ‘for fun’. Even today, Facebook believe that ‘done is better than perfect’.

DJs are in incredible competition, musically. And they are the most musically creative and sensitive people in all the music charts. I am amazed how they are.

There is competition. It's almost like I'm back in tennis competing in a way. There are usually about twenty composers vying for the number one spot for a big or medium film.

The thing I learned from playing tennis is that I know what competition is. I can handle rejection.

I think that Ring of Honor is a true alternative in the world of pro wrestling. Some of the best in-ring pure competition in the world you will find in Ring of Honor.

In general, if any branch of trade, or any division of labour, be advantageous to the public, the freer and more general the competition, it will always be the more so.

Having played in both competitions over recent years I believe that although standards continue to rise in Super League, the NRL is a better competition.

Unlimited competition leads to a huge waste of labor, and to that crippling of the social consciousness of individuals.

Measures which serve to abridge the free competition of foreign Articles, have a tendency to occasion an enhancement of prices.

If somebody has a monopoly position, and wants to keep that monopoly position, it means that you are effectively shutting out competition from other sources.

Contrary to what you think, your company will be a lot more productive if you refuse to tolerate competition among your employees.

I am reaching a point in my life where the basketball chapter in my life is slowly closing from a competition standpoint.

Those who can ask without shame are viewing themselves in collaboration with-rather than in competition with-the world.

I don't feel any sense of competition at all, and that might be my naïveté, but I don't feel pitted against anyone at all.

In the arts they call it plagiarism, in business they call it competition.

Shinji is a quality player but he is not the only one who is finding it hard to get regular football. There are many top players in the squad and there is plenty of competition.

Competition is warfare. Mostly it is played by prescribed rules--there is a sort of Geneva Convention for competition--but it's thorough and often brutal.

The whole point of team competition is to pick your teammates up.

American workers won't be able to compete fairly for jobs until companies have to pay higher wages in countries like China and India.

People have been talking about competition among insurers, and what they really need to be talking about is competition in the delivery of health care as well.

Anyplace market forces have been artificially removed by the government there is a total absence of incentives, competition, effective oversight, cost controls and so on.

I sang a lot as a little girl and entered competitions. I loved singing in choirs, but it was as I got older that I really found my voice.