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Quotes About Competition

Well, robots are, of course, the monkey's natural enemy.
~ Brian K. Vaughan
Rock beats scissors, bitch.
~ Brian K. Vaughan
That's why I admired that kid who spelled it wrong on purpose so he could sit down. He knew he wasn't going to win, so why stand there for 3 hours. First round. "Cat, K-A-T, I'm outta here." Then as he passed you, "Ha! I know there's 2 T's.
~ Brian Regan
It is rather pointless to go head to head with strong and entrenched competition. But numerous opportunities can be found in the marketplace for a company to maximize its unique qualities, differentiate its products and services, and go after a specific market segment where its competitors are weak and where you can develop superiority, where you can win battles.
~ Brian Tracy
The two most important qualities for success in business are patience and foresight, and the man who lacks patience is not cut out for success in competitive enterprise.
~ Brian Tracy
More fights are lost by underestimating your opponent than by any other way.
~ Bryce Courtenay
You couldn't lose, you was playing Mozart
~ Bryce Courtenay
It's queer to think how many little guys there are like that, with more ability than push, sucked in by one wave and hurled out by the next, for every Sammy Glick who slips through and over the waves like a porpoise.
~ Budd Schulberg
Winning the Loser's Game
~ Burton G. Malkiel
It is the nature of an average that some investors will beat it.
~ Burton G. Malkiel
The world is full of people who all want the same thing, and you have to do a little something extra to make them remember you.
~ Candace Bushnell
I feel sick. It's one thing to write for the school newspaper. But New York is on a whole different level. It's a mountain, with a few successful people like Bernard at the top, and a mad of dreamers and strivers like me at the bottom. And then there are people like Viktor, who aren't afraid to tell you that you've never going to reach that peak.
~ Candace Bushnell
But that was the problem with New York: No matter how succesful you thought you were, there was always someone who was richer, more successful, more famous.. The idea of it was sometimes enough to make you want to give up.
~ Candace Bushnell
I heard Coach Downs never started freshman, he told us. Well that's not how it is with me. I play the best players, period. If you're a junior with three letters on your jacket, and you shave twice a day, and some smooth-faced freshman whips your ass in practice, then your collecting splinters while he's playing. Understood? Coach Carlson
~ Carl Deuker
If winning cures everything, then losing poisons everything.
~ Carl Deuker
In nature violence is pure and purposeful, one species against another in an act of survival!
~ Carl Hiaasen
As for Dr. Remond Courtney, his golf swing was so unusual that from a distance he appeared to be beating a snake to death. It was a very violent golf swing for a psychiatrist. He managed an eight on the first hole and still won it by two strokes.
~ Carl Hiaasen
Without consulting our opinion—or even bothering to inform us of the underlying strategy—our brains produce hormones that make us feel strongly compelled to strive for status and assert dominance. Dominance feels like an end in itself. We don't need to know why. Here's why: high status aids survival. Status is a daily proxy for competition for mates and food.
~ Carl Safina
The nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist deep in gasoline, one with three matches, the other with five.
~ Carl Sagan
The biblical God is a sloppy manufacturer. He's not good at design, he's not good at execution. He'd be out of business if there was any competition.
~ Carl Sagan
Whatever the reason we first mustered the _Apollo_ program, however mired it was in Cold War nationalism and the instruments of death, the inescapable recognition of the unity and fragility of the Earth is its clear and luminous dividend, the unexpected final gift of _Apollo_. What began in deadly competition has helped us to see that global cooperation is the essential precondition for our survival. Travel is broadening. It's time to hit the road again.
~ Carl Sagan
I wonder how many potential Einsteins have been permanently discouraged through competitive examinations and the forced feeding of curricula.
~ Carl Sagan
Apart from the social insects, no other species has been clever enough to invent war It is an institution optimally configured to benefit the alphas
~ Carl Sagan
her mezhep ve kült diÄŸerleri üzerinde ahlaki bir denetimdir: Rekabet ticarette olduÄŸu kadar dinde de yararl?d?r.
~ Carl Sagan