Best 1389 quotes in «competition quotes» category

Many of us in the West have come to feel that the development of technology in the military and economic fields has produced a single world in which the central problems, both military and economic, are going to require co-operation rather than continued confrontation and competition.

Many of my students assume that government protection is the only thing ensuring decent wages for most American workers. But basic economics shows that competition between employers for workers can be very effective at preventing businesses from misbehaving.

Many writers are paralyzed by the thought that they are competing with everybody else who is trying to write and presumably doing it better.... Forget the competition and go at your own pace. Your only contest is with yourself.

Market competition is the only form of organization which can afford a large measure of freedom to the individual.

Mark Twain was so good with crowds that he became, in competition with singers and dancers and actors and acrobats, one of the most popular performers of his time. It is so unusual, and so psychologically unlikely, too, for a great writer to be a great performer, too.

Marshall's crime is to pretend to handle imperfect competition with tools only applicable to perfect competition.

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

Men often compete with one another until the day they die. Comradeship consists of rubbing shoulders jocularly with a competitor.

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

Militarism is in direct competition with people's needs for food, health care, and environmental protection.

Minds are in limited supply, and each mind has a limited capacity for memes, and hence there is considerable competition among memes for entry in as many minds as possible.

Minnesota is very important. You're going to have a competitive race for the Senate, a competitive governor's race, you have an open seat in the 6th (Congressional) District, a state legislature that is closely divided, and a state that was very competitive in 2000 and 2004 and is likely to be again in 2008.

Molded salads are best served in situations where they have little or no competition ... Like television, gelatin is too often a vehicle for limp leftovers that couldn't make it anywhere else.

Money and ownership alone aren't enough. Set high goals, encourage competition, and then keep score.

Monopoly power is an illusion in any system in which free competition is allowed.

More than 20 years on, sustained competition, informed customers and the rapid growth of new technology provide the necessary environment for substantial deregulation.

More than ever, the creation of the ridiculous is almost impossible because of the competition it receives from reality.

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

Most of your competition spend their days looking forward to those rare moments when everything goes right. Imagine how much leverage you have if you spend your time maximizing those common moments when it doesn't.

Most people get better when they face competition.

Mr. Stock came out of the competition tent carrying his zeppelin marrow on one shoulder and demanding to know what was going on. When he saw the hordes advancing on Aidan, he charged off that way, whirling the great vegetable. The Puck, who was rushing behind the horde, yelling at them to grab Aidan and kill Rolf, was Mr. Stock's first victim. The marrow caught him THOCK! on the side of the head. It laid the Puck out cold on the grass, but the mighty vegetable remained intact, mottled and glossy

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

My acting style and my physicality lends itself to doing things like putting a scene together for a dancing competition.

My dad's so likeable, you wouldn't feel in competition with him. If any boyfriends have ever felt that, they're long gone.

My best year of track competition was the first year I ate a vegan diet.

My dream remains to inform and entertain through fiction in the form of novels and movies that compete in the marketplace of ideas.

My hat's in the ring. The fight is on and I'm stripped to the buff.

My driver Kellie Frost and I would race these fellows home and they were always faster on the highway. We did the same with Daniel and his driver, and thus began a long series of jokes and competitions to alleviate the impossible hours and tensions this film provoked.

My Emmy competition is awfully good. My stomach is already in knots. The problem is that I don't drink, so I can't calm myself that way. I wish I could be better at pretending I don't care.

My dreams are who I'm racin wit but you can see I'm pacin it so that I'm always chasin it.

My motivation for 20 years, for 10 years with WikiLeaks, has been to publish true information that is otherwise unsayable. So we're not in competition, if you like.

My instinct is to assume that we consumers are an inconsistent bunch. We like competition if it delivers low prices, but grumble if it delivers the bad news that prices need to go up.

My operating assumption is we will always have very tough competition. And even with some European banks struggling right now, some of them can reemerge - and maybe even stronger.

My position is such that there is no necessity for me to enter into competition with struggling humanity. As to expensive and ruinous pleasures, I am a sceptic who knows how much they are worth, or rather, knows that they are not worth anything.

My sister Liza and I have never felt that we were in competition.

Nearly every study shows that competition from cheap foreign labor undercuts the wages of American workers and legal immigrants.

Nature is based on harmony. So it says if we want to survive and become more like nature, then we actually have to understand that it's cooperation versus competition.

Nature has a drive for wholeness and has created us only in relationship like one giant superorganism. It's a fact there is a connection between atoms and all of us in relationship with each other and with our environment. In all of our societal relationships there is a bond so profound and intricate that it's impossible to say where one thing stops and another thing begins. So you see this mirrored in every aspect, from the subatomic world to the world that we're more familiar with. So competition ends up being a false creation in our society.

No one intimidates me because I'm not trying to do what you do, because I can't do what you do. I can only do what Mary J. Blige can do, so that relaxes me right there, and it gets me out of the competition and that whole thing.

No amount of artificial protection can permanently maintain an obsolete product, an inferior process or a moribund organization against competitors which are based on scientifically improved products or methods.

Ninety percent of my game is mental. It's my concentration that has gotten me this far. I won't even call a friend on the day of a match. I'm scared of disrupting my concentration. I don't allow any competition with tennis.

No competition, no progress.

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

No one can see ahead three years, let alone five or ten. Competition, new inventions - all kinds of things - can change the situation in twelve months.

No matter what you are, you're a mess." That's what the world tells us. "Every other woman is your competition. You feel bad about yourself and every other woman think she's perfect.

No matter what the competition is, I try to find a goal that day and better that goal.

North and West have always vied for power and territory, but their recent competition as to which one is more insidious of the twohas been more peaceful.

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

Not too worried about fighting for titles, but just fighting the best competition at the Welterweight division. I'll be happy with that.

Nowadays young people have great choice of occupations, hobbies, etc, so chess is experiencing difficulties because of the high competition. Now it's hard to make living in chess, so our profession does attract young people.