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Quotes About Competition

War's an auction where whoever can pay the most in damage and still be standing wins.
~ David Mitchell
Standards wars involve lots of variables, and understanding them often seems more an art than a science. They generally involve just two big players, and end in a winner-take-all situation.
~ James Surowiecki
People don't seem to understand that it's a damn war out there.
~ Jimmy Connors
There was another war-related casualty today. The French were injured when they tried to jump on our bandwagon.
~ Jay Leno
The reality is that we've seen the last of any serious price wars for a long time. I don't think any of the others could afford it, certainly not on a long-term basis.
~ Rupert Murdoch
Americans don't need a metaphor for war. We have war. If anything, we use war as a metaphor for sports.
~ John Hodgman
The debate analysis in the media is rampant with contest analogies of war, baseball, boxing, football; you name it. Any testosterone contest imaginable is fair game.
~ Jonathan Raymond
You can't equate the game we play to a war. Kellen Winslow said he's a soldier. No, he's not. This is not a war...not a good comparison.
~ Ken Rosenthal
You can only win the 'war' with ideas, not with spending cuts
~ Klaus Kleinfeld
How many thousands of [lives] are there every year that comes cast away, (in all civilized countries at least)--and consider'd asnothing but common air, in competition of an hypothesis.
~ Laurence Sterne
As in laws or in war, the longest purse finally wins.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Back in my era, hacking was all about messing with other hackers. It was a hacker war.
~ Michael Demon Calce
We live in a war of two antagonistic ethical philosophies, the ethical policy taught in the books and schools, and the success policy.
~ William Graham Sumner
Politics is war without blood, while war is politics with blood.
~ Mao Zedong
war grows out of desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.
~ Napoleon Hill
Basically all the religions, sciences and powers of the world boil down to a simple truth. The Best Story Teller will win in the end!
~ Stanley Victor Paskavich
One hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the most skillful, subduing the other's military without battle is the most skillful.
~ Sun Tzu
If your opponent is of choleric temper, seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant.
~ Sun Tzu, The Art of War
All is fair in fashion and war.
~ Thisuri Wanniarachchi
Victory is always bittersweet.
~ Nadia Scrieva
Sooner or later every war of trade becomes a war of blood.
~ Eugene V. Debs
For no one makes aggresive war unless he excepts to win
~ Robert A. Taft
On occasions the war was like a Ping-Pong ball. You could put fancy spin on it, you could make it dance.
~ Tim O'Brien
Politics is an alternative to war and if you're in it, you live it as such. You win some & you lose at times.
~ Mamur Mustapha