Quotes About Competition

When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die.

There is no wine so sweet as wine taken from a foe.

Under capitalism each individual engages in economic planning.

Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base.

Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.

The difference between a jogger and a runner is an entry blank.

When you race you are under oath. You are testifying as to who you are.

The Internet is a place where ideas compete, and bad ideas in particular get shared.

If American chemical industries are oligopolistic, British, German, French, Italian, indeed European, chemical industries are monopolistic.

Under ordinary competitive conditions, any long and serious maladjustment between supply and demand cannot last.

The term cartel was virtually unknown to the American language a generation ago. Like most borrowed words, when first taken over it meant different things to different persons. Time was required to crystallize its meaning. In this country it now commonly refers to international marketing arrangements. In a companion study we have defined such a cartel as an arrangement among, or on behalf of, producers engaged in the same line of business designed to limit or eliminate competition among them.

either on a competitive or a cartel basis.

It is clear that both at home and abroad producers have been unwilling to trust their fortunes entirely to the unrestricted play of competition. Both in world and domestic markets businessmen have sought security by substituting collective controls for the free play of market forces.

The steel cartel is dead; but the cartel idea survives.

Both the law and business have long recognized the propriety of quantity discounts. But since 1914 the Clayton Act has banned price discrimination "when the effect may be to substantially lessen competition or tend to create a monopoly." And since 1936 the Robinson-Patman Act has recognized such quantity discounts as legal only if they represent a saving in cost, and the law places the burden of proof on the seller.

In a dynamic democratic society it is indeed difficult to keep in harness the forces of competition.

International trade in chemical products is not free. . . . Joint control of the market became the general rule; free competition, the exception.

Football is a mistake. It combines two of the worst things about American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings.

Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.

Football combines two of the worst things in American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings.

Nature makes woman to be won and men to win.

You may have married her, but she is mine. Do you think I shall let you take her? She may be ten times your wife, but, by God, you shall never have her.

A company that can't sell what it makes can't stay in business. Eventually, inevitably, the marketplace will collapse and a global depression will hit that will make the last depression look like good times." Kelly

The Spanish economic system is like a game of musical chairs, in which there are only half as many seats as there are performers.