Best 1389 quotes in «competition quotes» category

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 for status is a zero sum game

Competition got me off the farm and trained me to seek out challenges and to endure setbacks; and in combination with my faith, it sustains me now in my fight with Alzheimer's disease.

Competition [in a scene] is healthy. Competition is life. Yet most actors refuse to acknowledge this. They don't want to compete. They want to get along. And they are therefore not first-rate actors.

Competition is healthy. Competition is life. Yet most actors refuse to acknowledge this. They don't want to compete. They want to get along. And they are therefore not first-rate actors. The good actor is the one who competes, willingly, who enjoys competing. An actor must compete, or die...Peacefulness and the avoidance of trouble won't help in his acting. It is just the opposite he must seek.

Competition is like experimentation in science, a discovery process, and it must rely on the self interest of producers, it must allow them to use their knowledge for their purposes, because nobody else possesses the information

Competition is overrated. In practice it is quite destructive and should be avoided wherever possible. Much better than fighting for scraps in existing markets is to create and own new ones.

Competition, which is the instinct of selfishness, is another word for dissipation of energy, while combination is the secret of efficient production.

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.

Competition is healthy ... but there is more to life than winning or we should nearly all be losers

Competition is healthy, if you can turn it off and on. When someone gets too cocky in victory, that can ruin the positive aspect.

Competition is the law of the jungle, but cooperation is the law of civilization

Competition is very good... as long as its healthy. It's what makes one strive to be better.

Competition on the market aims at assigning to every individual that function in the social system in which he can render to all his fellow men the most valuable of the services he is able to perform.

Competition-ruthless, unforgiving, to-the-death competition-is a crucial feature of capitalism.

Competing for Wales in the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne 2006 at the age of 16 was daunting for me. It was my first major senior competition and to go out there in front of such a huge crowd was terrifying at the time, but I've had so many senior internationals since then, I feel that this experience has given me the confidence to give it the best shot that I can.

Competition always tends to bring about the most economical and efficient method of production. Those who are most successful in this competition will acquire more capital to increase their production still further; those who are least successful will be forced out of the field. So capitalist production tends constantly to be drawn into the hands of the most efficient.

Competition, founded upon the conflicting interests of individuals, is in reality far less productive of wealth and enterprise than co-operation, involving though it does the constant apparent sacrifice of the individual to the common interests.

Competition is a by-product of productive work, not its goal.

Competition is a moral problem and an emotional tangle and a political conundrum.

Competition is a painful thing, but it produces great results.

Competition is a tough weed, not a delicate flower.

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.

Competition leads both drug companies and private regulators to be trustworthy. If they are not trustworthy, they die.

Competition was as much as respecting your opponent's work as introspecting on your own.

Competition whose motive is merely to compete, to drive some other fellow out, never carries very far.

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.