Quotes About Competition

It takes you 500,000 microseconds just to click a mouse. But if you're a Wall Street algorithm and you're five microseconds behind, you're a loser.

Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higer the fences get.

That's not a goal," Kit said. "Why? Because it's not yours? Which is better, Kit Meinem of Atyar? A single great victory, or a thousand small ones?

A supermodel needed to be able to be on 'Sports Illustrated ' to be able to walk runways, to be able to do beauty ads, to be on covers. And the girls now can no longer be on covers and be in the ads because your actresses have taken over all the jobs. I don't know what happened, but we want our jobs back.

If the IAAF feel that is the right way to go for TV rights and everything, the rule will stay. As much as I want to be on the podium, tonight is a sad night for athletics.

I'm beginning to understand that the two of them squabble simply for amusement's sake.

I remember how the book talked about the pressure to please and be perfect that every woman falls into and then projects onto her daughter. Nothing is ever good enough. No woman can ever outrun what she has to do. No one can be all things - a mother, a good partner, a lover, as well as a competitor in the workplace.

As the joke goes, you don't have to be faster than the wolf chasing you, just faster than everyone else running away.

This inevitably puts you in conflict or competition with other people for the simple reason that you build esteem only by comparing yourself to others.

Science was many things, Nadia thought, including a weapon with which to hit other scientists.

Eliminate one species, and another increases in number to take its place

With all the mass media concentrated in a few hands, the ancient faith in the competition of ideas in the free market seems like a hollow echo of a much simpler day.

Outside every fat man there was an even fatter man trying to close in.

Clumsy? Why, I've had more women than you, you whelp. Well. Maybe not more than you, but certainly more than Ewan. (Lochlan) That's not saying much. My left boot has had more women than Ewan. (Braden)

I'm not out here to win a beauty contest.

Once in a while, it's going to be us or them.

Yes, you're afraid of me because I'm better than you are. And if you give one talented woman the power she deserves, another will follow. Then another. And together they'll show that their way is better. Then your whole fake fucking world will come tumbling down.

I come from a sports family and my husband is a rugby player.

Chinese people need to realize is that it would serve China's long-term strategic interests for China to continue opening up its economy even while the Trump administration has been creating more difficulties for foreign businesses to either invest or export to America. Over time, this will mean more countries will be trading and investing more with China than with America.

Chinese communism is not a threat to American democracy. Instead, the success and competitiveness of the Chinese economy and society is the real challenge.

even though many American businesses continue to prosper in China, a growing number of firms have given up hope that the playing field will ever be level. Some have accepted the Faustian bargain of maximizing today's earnings per share while operating under restrictions that jeopardize their future competitiveness. But that doesn't mean they're happy about it.

Just like two lions can't share a territory and so are two men.

Show me a good and gracious loser and I'll show you a failure.

The motivation for me is just the game itself, just playing the game the right way and trying to win, compete every time I step out there on the floor. That's motivation enough for me to go out there and play well.