Quotes About Competition

Most millionaires, for example, are not intellectually gifted in an analytical sense. They did not receive all As in school, nor were they in the 1400-and-above SAT club. That's why they decided not to compete in macho dogfight environments where superior analytical intelligence is a requirement to succeed.

Many successful business owners have told us that they enjoy short periods of rough times in their chosen industries because they weed out much of the competition.

It is a sweet thing to outstrip a father whom you haven't forgiven.

It is impossible for ideas to compete in the marketplace if no forum for their presentation is provided or available.

The Need to Win When an archer is shooting for nothing He has all his skill. If he shoots for a brass buckle He is already nervous. If he shoots for a prize of gold He goes blind Or sees two targets – He is out of his mind. His skill has not changed, But the prize Divides him. He cares, He thinks more of winning Than of shooting – And the need to win Drains him of power.

Too much happiness, too much unhappiness, out of due time, men are thrown off balance. What will they do next? Thought runs wild. No control. They start everything, finish nothing. Here competition begins, here the idea of excellence is born, and robbers appear in the world.

Yeah, actually, gamers in the house forever.

But don't they look like apes, now, fighting over a female? Even if the female is named Liberty.

It's wrong because if you pick up a rifle, the Man picks up a machine gun, by the time you find some machine gun he's all set up to shoot rockets, begin to see a pattern?

Social Darwinists of the day were forever on about the joys of bloody teeth and claws, but they were curiously uncelebratory of speed and deception, poison and surprise.

Nobody here wants Competition,' Ives LeSpark re-entering, shaking his head gravely. 'All wish but to name their Price, and maintain it, without the extra work and worry all these damn'd Up-starts require.

Holy-Center-Approaching is soon to be the number one Zonal pastime. Its balmy heyday is nearly on it. Soon more champions, adepts, magicians of all ranks and orders will be in the field than ever before in the history of the game. The sun will rule all enterprise, if it be honest and sporting. The Gauss curve will herniate toward the excellent. And tankers the likes of Närrisch and Slothrop here will have already been weeded out.

Now GE has connections with Siemens over here, they worked on the V-2 guidance

While "greed" is one of the most popular—and most fallacious—explanations of the very high salaries of corporate executives, when your salary depends on what other people are willing to pay you, you can be the greediest person on earth and that will not raise your pay in the slightest. Any serious explanation of corporate executives' salaries must be based on the reasons for those salaries being offered, not the reasons why the recipients desire them.

The more highly competitive the market for labor and for the employer's products, the higher the cost paid for discrimination and consequently the less leeway the employer has for indulging his prejudices without risking his own profits and ultimately the financial survival of the business. On the other hand, enterprises not subject to the full stress of a competitive market—monopolies, non-profit enterprises, government agencies—have greater leeway.

Access is one of the great dishonest words of our times. I have had as much access to a career in professional basketball as Michael Jordan had. He just happened to play the game a lot better. Indeed, practically everybody has played the game a lot better than I did.

It would be naive to overlook the self-interest behind many of the glowing pleas for "expanded educational opportunity for youth." Since youth must compete against each other for jobs, more "opportunity" for tax-subsidized education of middle-class students means a continued escalation of degree requirements for jobs and corresponding restriction of opportunity for youths from poorer families.

What seems a more tenable conclusion is that, as economic historian David S. Landes put it, The world has never been a level playing field.

Britain was overtaken not only in gross output but also in output per worker. It lost its lead in technological innovation.

Given the scarcity of mental resources, an economy in which knowledge and vision have such a decisive advantage in market competition is an economy that has great advantages in creating a high standard of living for the general population. A society in which only members of a hereditary aristocracy, a military junta or a single political party in power can make great decisions is a society that wastes much of the knowledge, vision and talent of the majority of its members. own people.

the supply of customers and the supply of labor are almost totally under the control of the education establishment. Compulsory attendance laws guarantee a captive audience, except for about 13 percent of American youngsters who attend private schools,5 and official requirements of education courses for permanent tenure keep out the unwanted competition of potential teachers from outside the existing establishment.

Las personas cometen errores en todos los ámbitos del emprendimiento humano, pero cuando se cometen grandes errores en una economía competitiva, aquellos que estuvieron equivocados pueden ser forzados a salir del mercado por las pérdidas resultantes.

Muchos, incluso hoy, atribuyen con frecuencia el alto nivel de ganancias a los altos precios cobrados por personas motivadas por la «avaricia». La realidad, sin embargo, es que la mayoría de las grandes fortunas de la historia estadounidense ha resultado de la capacidad de alguien para reducir costes, y al mismo tiempo cobrar precios más bajos y por tanto ganar un mercado masivo para su producto.

Existe un motivo por el cual muchas funciones tradicionales del gobierno, como la recogida de basura, o la administración de las prisiones, han sido subcontratadas cada vez más a empresas privadas, con ánimo de lucro. Estas empresas habitualmente realizan el mismo trabajo a menor coste o con mayor calidad, o ambas cosas a la vez.