Quotes About Competition

The whole society is a slave hierarchy. Everybody curries favor with the echelon above, and keeps his eye on the echelon below to make sure he isn't being undercut. We have something not too unlike that, ourselves. Any organizational society is, in some ways, like a slave society.

He who builds a better mousetrap these days runs into material shortages, patent-infringement suits, work stoppages, collusive bidding, discount discrimination--and taxes."

History is a race between education and catastrophe.

A racehorse that consistently runs just a second faster than another horse is worth millions of dollars more. Be willing to give that extra effort that separates the winner from the one in second place.

En el juego de la supervivencia algunos vehículos juegan mejor, maniobran mejor, y se propagan mejor que otros.

I am in competition with no one. I have no desire to play the game of being better than anyone. I am simply trying to be better than the person I was yesterday.

All you want is something else, something different, something as simple as not being second.

I hope he picked a winner

The object is not to win or lose, for that is already decided, and already irrelevant80—for us it is rather to be on the playing field, with utmost exercise of élan and investment of spirit to the end.

One way, he thought, the whole thing of ring fighting was hurting somebody else, deliberately, and particularly when it was not necessary. Two men who have nothing against each other get in a ring and try to hurt each other, to provide vicarious fear for people with less guts than themselves. And to cover it up they called it sports and gambled on it. He had never looked at that way before, and if there was any single thing he could not endure it was to be a dupe.

Deal with him, Hemingway!

Justice it means but it's everybody eating everyone else. That's what life is after all.

Remember... It's a jungle out there!

My brothers and sisters were my best friends, but when it came to food, they were my enemies.

Because all that money wouldn't be in the pot in the first place if you weren't up against a pretty strong hand, you loose, dumb, tight-weak motherfucker!

Let it be understood that we cannot go outside of this alternative: liberty, inequality, survival of the fittest; not liberty, equality, survival of the unfittest. The former carries society forward and favors all its best members; the latter carries society downwards and favors its worst members.

A finite game is played for the purpose of winning, an infinite game for the purpose of continuing the play.

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Never fight fair-- that's not how you win. Use every dirty trick you can, Expect pain. Expect to get hurt. If you're surprised by the pain, you just lost.

Victory belongs to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.

Victory belongs to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake. Soneji

If number two pencils are so popular, why are they still number two?

Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer. As

I'm pretty sure dodgeball was invented by some gym teacher who hated kids and just wanted an excuse to throw things at them.