Quotes About Competition

In schools they have what they call intelligence tests. Well if nations held 'em I don't believe we would be what you would call a favorite to win it.

This world is not a Sunday School; it is a slaughter-house, and always has been. Peace or war, what does it matter? There is no such thing as peace, and never can be. Competition is just peaceful war with far more cruel weapons than either shot or shell. War is competition stripped of all disguise — without the velvet glove.

If worrying were an Olympic sport, you'd get the gold for sure.

How come we choose from just two people to run for president and 50 for Miss America?

I believe the two greatest words in the English language are "Play ball!"

ACADEME, n. An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. ACADEMY, n. (from academe). A modern school where football is taught.

Baseball is like driving, it's the one who gets home safely that counts.

You want to run out in front, prepare to be tripped from behind.

It's not too good to have this attitude in F1. It could be a disadvantage.

I always had the attitude that I wanted to throw a no-hitter every game.

I think that major championships are as much about attitude as they are anything else.

College football would be more interesting if the faculty played instead of the students - there would be a great increase in broken arms, legs and necks.

The saddest life is that of a political aspirant under democracy. His failure is ignominious and his success is disgraceful.

Both sides had more confidence in their opponents' weaknesses than their own strength.

We ate away, reminiscing about our victories over the enemies from different streets and villages and competing with each other in casting curses. A few golden butterflies and dragonflies were fluttering around us. The afternoon air was warm and clean, and the town below us seemed like a green harbor full of white sails.

I find the business world hard.

This is what I wanted. They tell me that London is the best field in history. I wanted to be part of that. Because everyone will be there it will be a wonderful challenge for me. You can see the best runners, how they look, how they run. For me to beat the best is what counts.

Breaking away from the illusion of market objectivity is the first step towards understanding capitalism.

Britain also banned exports from its colonies that competed with its own products, home and abroad. It banned cotton textile imports from India ('calicoes'), which were then superior to the British ones. In 1699 it banned the export of woolen cloth from its colonies to other countries (the Wool Act), destroying the Irish woolen industry and stifling the emergence of woollen manufacture in America.

When some people have to run a 100 metre race with sandbags on their legs, the fact that no one is allowed to have a head start does not make the race fair. Equality of opportunity is absolutely necessary but not sufficient in building a genuinely fair and efficient society.

It is a law of competition that people who can do difficult things which others cannot will earn more profit.

It was only after the Second World War, when the US became top dog and liberalized its trade, that countries like France came to look protectionist.

El mercado libre no existe. Todos los mercados tienen reglas y límites que acotan la libertad de elección. Si un mercado parece libre, solo es porque aceptamos tan incondicionalmente sus restricciones de base que ya no las vemos. No se puede definir con objetividad lo «libre» que es un mercado.

government of an economically backward nation, such as the US, needs to protect and nurture 'industries in their infancy' against superior foreign competitors until they grow up; this is known as the infant industry argument.