Quotes About Competition

It is a very powerful manipulation to let others win the small battles.

When you consider beliefs in evolutionary terms, do not look at how they compete with each other, but consider the survival of the populations that have them.

Winner-take-all effects are worsening:

Now, if you run away, all you need to be is just faster than me, not faster than the animal.

way too many cooks in the same tiny kitchen, most of whom never have to taste the food.

You can tell people who come from countries with rent seeking; they think that business is zero-sum: wealth is money taken from others.

Under the right market structure, a collection of idiots produces a well-functioning market.

In these professions, no matter how highly paid, your income is subject to gravity.

companies foolishly believed that all they needed was to win the majority. No, you idiots.

Jollity and gloom were contending for an empire.

Running had become more of a competition to draw out the best that was in him, as if he were plumbing the depths of his will.

That's exactly what the scythedom is: high school with murder.

Nature is the sum of all selfishness, forcing each and every species to viciously claw its way to survival by snuffing others in the suffocating mire of history. I

As for the other team, there would be much weeping and gnashing of teeth, as the Bible says.

Second place meant first loser.

Nature is the sum of all selfishness, forcing each and every species to viciously claw its way to survival by snuffing others in the suffocating mire of history.

The problem with setting out to change the world was that you were never the only one. It was an endless tug-of-war with powerful players pulling—not just against you, but in every direction—so that whatever you did, even if you made progress against all those vectors, at some point you were bound to go sideways.

Between them, the baby still cries. It's like a game of steal the bacon, where no one wants to take the bacon.

You've hit the nail on the head, Anastasia. That's exactly what the scythedom is: high school with murder.

En matière de survie, il n'y a pas de seconde ou de troisième place qui tienne. C'est la médaille d'or ou la tombe. — Kelton

One hundred and thirty IQ points all focused on cooking up doom. Lev can't hope to compete with that.

A game of chess, then, where all the pieces are invisible!" "If you like," said Greyson.

I only remember fighting Ozzy O'Dell once. It was back in second grade. He threw these weird windmill-like punches, which was probably an early sign that the swim team was in his future.

She could beat him at everything. Even at losing.