Quotes About Competition

Both of my parents were judo fighters from the national team. So I've always been around fighters my whole childhood.

It's hard to think about the national team when you are with your club side and so invested in your team, your individual self and trying to win a play-off series.

If high-wage, high-cost nations like Germany and Japan can compete on exports, California can.

Our future defence relationship with Europe should be complimentary - and not in competition to - NATO. It must be effective, too.

I think my body was built to eat 68 hot dogs. It's natural.

Commerce and art are natural enemies. And also, the enemy of good is great. And the enemy of great is good, so there's this huge juggling that's going on all the time.

What is certain is that plurality and diversity are not, and never can be, a natural 'byproduct' of unregulated market forces.

For me, that's natural. The instinct to score comes naturally and if you have it, you've got to go to it.

When you're around people who are trying to be funny all day and trying to one-up each other, that's just naturally - if you want to do it - it's going to make you better.

My biggest competition is myself and my two natures.

Of course I'm naughty. I've always had to compete for attention, you see.

It was better "to have too much capacity than the other way around," Chang declared. Anyone who wanted to break into the foundry business would face the full force of competition from TSMC as it raced to capture the booming market for smartphone chips.

Within four years of the iPhone's launch, Apple was making over 60 percent of all the world's profits from smartphone sales, crushing rivals like Nokia and BlackBerry and leaving East Asian smartphone makers to compete in the low-margin market for cheap phones.

The Dutch company ASML builds 100 percent of the world's extreme ultraviolet lithography machines, without which cutting-edge chips are simply impossible to make. OPEC's 40 percent share of world oil production looks unimpressive by comparison

A facility to fabricate the most advanced logic chips costs twice as much as an aircraft carrier but will only be cutting-edge for a couple of years.

World War II was decided by steel and aluminum, and followed shortly thereafter by the Cold War, which was defined by atomic weapons. The rivalry between the United States and China may well be determined by computing power.

Chips from Taiwan provide 37 percent of the world's new computing power each year. Two Korean companies produce 44 percent of the world's memory chips. The Dutch company ASML builds 100 percent of the world's extreme ultraviolet lithography machines, without which cutting-edge chips are simply impossible to make. OPEC's 40 percent share of world oil production looks unimpressive by comparison.

China had driven U.S. solar panel manufacturing out of business. Couldn't it do the same in semiconductors? "This

Helping companies and professors keep Moore's Law alive, DARPA reasoned, was crucial to America's military edge.

Our fundamental problem is that our number one customer is our number one competitor.

Semiconductors weren't simply the "cornerstone" of "everything we're competing on," as one administration official had put it. They could also be a devastatingly powerful weapon.

Fear of competition, fear of bankruptcy, fear of being wrong and fear of losing can all be powerful motivators.

TSMC builds almost all the world's most advanced processor chips.

The technological basis for Japan's challenge to American hegemony began to crumble.