Quotes About Competition

People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout.

How are you to get up the sympathies of the audience in a legitimate manner, if there isn't a little man contending against a big one?

In my fifty years of experience and memory, I have seen the most amazing increase in the standard of living of a people ever achieved anywhere in the world. This is why I am so sure that our system of free competition and industrial development is sound and must be preserved.

Competition and the accumulation of more than one needs are the natural response to a perceived scarcity of resources. The obscene overconsumption and waste of our society arise from our poverty: the deficit of being that afflicts the discrete and separate self, the scarcity of money in an interest-based system, the poverty of relationship that comes from the severance of our ties to community and to nature, the relentless pressure to do anything, anything at all, to make a living.

Today's usury-money is part of a story of separation, in which 'more for me is less for you.' That is the essence of interest: I will only "share" money with you if end up with even more of it in return. On the systemic level as well, interest on money creates competition, anxiety and the polarization of wealth. Meanwhile, the phrase 'more for me is less for you' is also the motto of the ego, and a truism given the discrete and separate self of modern economics, biology, and philosophy.

Three times as many people worked on Apollo as on the Manhattan Project to create the atomic bomb.

The race to the Moon

relentlessly strive to come up with new and better products and produce them more efficiently than the alternatives.

Opportunities are never lost; someone will take the one you miss.

I'd as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.

I don't think America will have really made it until we have our own salad dressing. Until then we're stuck behind the French, Italians, Russians, and Caesarians.

In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say that you are.

It is not enough merely to win; others must lose.

Every day the eye is subject to a thousand tiny shocks as a thousand industries compete for the eye-kick, the visual hook that will lock the consumer into product for that crucial second where the tiny - or not so tiny - leap of the imagination is made.

The perception of the opponent is always the target.

Culture matters for reasons good and bad. First, it is the place to discover advantage, opportunity, and innovation.

Eighteen holes of match or medal play will teach you more about your foe than will 18 years of dealing with him across a desk.

Golf gives you an insight into human nature, your own as well as your opponent's.

For when the One Great Scorer comes To mark against your name, He writes - not that you won or lost - But HOW you played the Game. "Alumnus Football

It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game.

Eighteen holes of match play will teach you more about your foe than 18 years of dealing with him across a desk.

Fleshers used to spin fantasies about aliens arriving to 'conquer' Earth, to steal their 'precious' physical resources, to wipe them out for fear of 'competition'…as if a species capable of making the journey wouldn't have had the power, or the wit, or the imagination, to rid itself of obsolete biological imperatives. Conquering the Galaxy is what bacteria with spaceships would do – knowing no better, having no choice.

You don't suffer, kill yourself and take the risks I take just for money. I love bike racing.

What's a good tournament for him? Winning it. He's good enough.