Best 1389 quotes in «competition quotes» category

Being properly prepared is one of the biggest assets in business and in athletic competition.

Being successful means good results for the national team at first in the regional competitions like the Asian Cup and keeping in mind to go for Gold at a World Cup in the future.

Believing that your competition is stronger and better than you pushes you to better yourselves.

Be thankful for quality competitors who push you to your limit.

Bill Maher and I are on against each other, and we're friends. He can do my show any time he wants, and I've done Politically Incorrect several times. There's no reason to think competition has to be adversarial.

Black women are programmed to define ourselves within this male attention and to compete with each other for it rather than to recognize and move upon our common interests.

Business corporations in general are not defenders of free enterprise. On the contrary, they are one of the chief sources of danger....Every businessman is in favor of freedom for everybody else, but when it comes to himself that's a different question. We have to have that tariff to protect us against competition from abroad. We have to have that special provision in the tax code. We have to have that subsidy.

But anybody who steps into the lane beside you is the biggest competition because they made it to the finals.

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.

But my middle daughter, Kate, is very involved in martial arts, and I was just at one of her competitions.

But prices for the opening ceremony and some events' final competition should be a little bit higher.

But suppose, for the sake of argument, free competition, without any sort of monopoly, would develop capitalism trade more rapidly. Is it not a fact that the more rapidly trade and capitalism develop, the greater is the concentration of production and capital which gives rise to monopoly?

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?

Competition for status is a zero sum game

Can we have a conversation about the substance? That's what I welcome. We're happy to have those conversations if there are places where people think there can be improvements. We want competition in the system, so let's talk about that.

Capitalism is based on ruthless exploitation and competition, and leads inevitably to the development of mega monopolies.

Chiropractic has helped keep me injury free - that is half the trick to staying in competition.

Close girlfriends I don't have necessarily, as an actress. Perhaps there is a thing of competition there, you know, when you're doing the same things, and you're the same age. I could be with younger actors, but woman of my age probably - there is and there isn't, one doesn't like to think of it, but I think there is a sense of competition. Which is good, also.

Competition breeds excellence, including in the GOP race.

Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers.

Competition is all about you. It's about feeding your selfish needs. It feeds the depravity of your heart.

Competition is for dogs and horses.

Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress.

Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.

Competition is the most promising means to achieve and secure prosperity. It alone enables people in their role of consumer to gain from economic progress. It ensures that all advantages which result from higher productivity may eventually be enjoyed.

Competition is what keeps me playing the psychological warfare of matching skill against skill and wit against wit.

Competition of praise inclineth to a reverence of antiquity. For men contend with the living, not with the dead.

Competition validates you. It creates a category. It permits the sale to be this or that, not yes or no.

Competitive toughness is an acquired skill and not an inherited gift.

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

Competition for the sake not of destroying one another, but for the sake of bettering and improving both competitors as a result of the competition.

Competition is a great thing and critically important in any industry. I respect the companies that build their brand through innovation/great product, packaging, sharp marketing and clever ideas.

Competition is always a fantastic thing, and the computer industry is intensely competitive.

Competition is pretty much the essence of everything, it gives humans drive.

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

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.

Competition's always been a product of American lifestyle

Competitions are what you do as a good exercise.

Complexity and obscurity have professional value - they are the academic equivalents of apprenticeship rules in the building trades. They exclude the outsiders, keep down the competition, preserve the image of a privileged or priestly class. The man who makes things clear is a scab. He is criticized less for his clarity than for his treachery.

Conducting a creativity audit can be very illuminating because it can tell you how the process is working internally and against the competition.

Conflict may be defined as a situation of competition in which the parties are aware of the incompatibility of potential future positions, and in which each party wishes to occupy a position that is incompatible with the wishes of the other.

Copy, not from your industry, from others. You have to go where there is no competition.

[Could] motor cars could be produced [in a country like Germany] and sold in competition in the American market . . . .In my opinion it is impossible to reach the conclusion that competition from without can ever be any factor whatsoever?

But to win, I was overwhelmed - it felt great! I was really excited. I didn't expect it, but I'm also really competitive. As soon as I hear the word "competition" I get serious and start doing everything that I can do.

By a steady adherence to the Union we may hope, erelong, to become the arbiter of Europe in America, and to be able to incline the balance of European competitions in this part of the world as our interest may dictate.

Competition, free enterprise, and an open market were never meant to be symbolic fig leaves for corporate socialism and monopolistic capitalism.

Competition is always a good thing. It forces us to do our best. A monopoly renders people complacent and satisfied with mediocrity.

Competition is an easy way to get into flow.

Competition is easier to accept if you realize it is not an act of oppression or abrasion-I've worked with my best friends in direct competition.

Competition is great. And as long as it's friendly and not a malicious thing, then I think it's cool.