Quotes About Competition

The real inferiority of women to men is shown by their hate of paederasty , which they regard as unfair competition. Men on the other hand rather approve of Sapphism , as saving them trouble & expense. — Aleister Crowley . 1929-03-09 diary entry.

We don't care if these girls want to eat their men. That's the Piranha Man's problem. We just want the avocados.

Success is somebody else's failure.

I've seen lifelong friends drift apart over golf just because one could play better, but the other counted better.

The thing is, it's very easy to be different, but very difficult to be better. – JONY IVE

In their constant iterations, Apple was beating the "fast followers

There are too many stars and too few actors.

Folks don't like to have somebody around knowin' more than they do. It aggravates 'em.

Why don't we pass a law that says when you borrow money to buy somebody else and cannibalize him, the interest payments on those loans are not deductible? That would get the excesses out of the system pretty fast. Right now, if you want to buy up a competitor, generally you can't. That would violate the antitrust laws. But if you want to buy a company that does something else entirely, that's okay. Where's the sense in that?

Transport costs increased as the city grew, making the sale of mud less and less profitable; competition in the form of guano and chemical fertilisers undermined sales further.

If you deprive yourself of outsourcing and your competitors do not, you're putting yourself out of business.

Political reform need not go hand in hand with economic liberalisation. I do not believe that if you are libertarian, full of diverse opinions, full of competing ideas in the market place, full of sound and fury, therefore you will succeed.

Without competition, the spectacular development of technology that we have seen in the last one hundred years in this country would not have happened.

The beauty of this country and what people participate in is the competitive nature that we allow to exist and the fact is that we are better because we have great competitors.

It's hard for us in our stores to be a leader in technology.

I'm a frustrated actor. My ... goal is to beat Alfred Hitchcock in the number of cameos. I'm going to try to break his record.

DC, of course, is trying to catch up to Marvel. More power to them. It's good if everybody does well, but they're certainly starting from a ways back. They have a lot of catching up to do ... Marvel has so many heroes. DC just has Superman, Batman and maybe Wonder Woman. Perhaps they'll use The Flash. Green Lantern wasn't very successful, but we'll see.

Nobody buy you and your caddie care what you do out there, and if your caddie is betting against you, he doesn't care, either

I'm not out there just to be dancing around. I expect to win every time I tee up

Jack Nicklaus was the first to bring in course management. He could go to a course and tell you within one stroke what was going to win. He used to set his sights on that because he could shoot it. He was the only player I know who, if he decided he wanted to win a tournament, could go out and do it. No one will ever be as popular as Arnold Palmer and no one will ever come close to Jack as a player

You have to understand, I don't play golf for fun. It's my business. When the mailman starts delivering mail on his off day, that's when I'll start playing golf for the hell of it. I like to play in tournaments. There are many great courses around the world that I have never played that are next door to tournaments. I have not played them because I don't play for fun

You don't know what pressure is until you've played for five dollars a hole with only two in your pocket

Putts get real difficult the day they hand out the money.

Listen, everything I did in my childhood was competitive. Everything we did my dad made it into a game to win. We used to drive my mum nuts.