Quotes About Competition

Mientras que el capitalismo tiene un coste visible —la ganancia— que no existe bajo el socialismo, el socialismo tiene un coste invisible —la ineficiencia— que es erradicado en el capitalismo a través de las pérdidas y la quiebra

1870, Britain produced 32 percent of all the manufactured goods in the world, followed by the United States at 23 percent and Germany at 13 percent.

En general, el mercado es más listo que el más espabilado de sus participantes individuales. ROBERT L. BARTLEY

While capitalism has a visible cost - profit - that does not exist under socialism, socialism has an invisible cost - inefficiency - that is eradicated under capitalism through losses and bankruptcy.

The prevention of competition is essential to exploitation.

In general, the market is smarter than the smartest of its individual participants. - Robert L. Bartley

Risk-taking is the mother's milk of capitalism. The Wall Street Journal

La competencia ha sido y será siempre problemática para aquellos que tienen que competir. FRÉDÉRIC BASTIAT

war is a matter not so much of arms as of money

It was the rise of Athens and the fear that this instilled in Sparta that made war inevitable.

if you gone come in second, you're just the first loser!

The only reason I enter an event is to win. It's not to make the cut or finish top 10 or even second. It's to win the event.

So whenever a new technology emerges, it's worth trying to ask who will win and who will lose out as a result. The answer can often surprise us.

More abundance can lead to more competition. If ordinary people live at subsistence levels, powerful people can't really take much away from them—not if they want to come back and take more the next time there's a harvest. But the more ordinary people are able to produce, the more powerful people can confiscate.

The likes of Google and Target are no more keen to share their datasets and algorithms than Newton was to share his alchemical experiments. Sometimes

We'll start a whole new human race," Hoop quipped. "With respect, Hoop, I believe Ripley would eat you alive.

He killed me at the Scrabble board, barely concentrating, and on those occasions when speech was necessary he had a way of compressing large thoughts into small, cryptic packets of language.

There were red checkers and black checkers. The playing field was laid out in a strict grid, no tunnels or mountains or jungles. You knew where you stood. You knew the score. The pieces were out on the board, the enemy was visible, you could watch the tactics unfolding into larger strategies. There was a winner and a loser. There were rules.

On occasions the war was like a Ping-Pong ball. You could put fancy spin on it, you could make it dance.

Building the Mean Streak was not a mistake. We needed a wooden coaster and we were hoping for a Beast. But it was never on the same planet as the Beast. Nothing has ever come close to the Beast.

The average age in our platoon, I'd guess, was nineteen or twenty, and as a consequence things often took on a curiously playful atmosphere, like a sporting event at some exotic reform school. The competition could be lethal, yet there was a childlike exuberance to it all, lots of pranks and horseplay. Like when Azar blew away Ted Lavender's puppy. 'What's everybody so upset about?' Azar said. 'I mean, Christ, I'm just a boy.

Shakeouts typically mark the point at which an ascendant technology is ready to take its place at center stage. The pretenders are given the bum's

these three cases, teasing out some of the essential elements of difference. Netscape vs. Google

Uncertainties are often useful in paralyzing an opponent's plans and actions