Quotes About Competition

Possession means nothing when the opponent takes its chances

The chances of you winning are the same as the chances of HELL freezing over.

Everyone is the same for the first two minutes, everyone has a chance to win, but after that you start to seperate physically and mentally.

I can live with losing, I can't live without taking my chance.

Baseball gives you every chance to be great. Then it puts every pressure on you to prove you haven't got what it takes.

I think it's more than whether or not you win or lose. It's having that opportunity on that final round, final nine, to come down the stretch with a chance to win.

There are a lot of people who might not get another chance to win a Super Bowl, not just me.

Games give you a chance to excel.

Changing would not give me the best chance to win. I need to have fun. I need to attack.

When you have the chance to fight for victory or a podium finish, you have the motivation to push that extra bit out of yourself.

It so cliché to say some guys and girls need to step up, but there can be bigger stars and bigger names when people get their chance.

If you spend your energies looking for and analysing situations not closely followed by other informed investors, your chance of finding bargains greatly increases.

If I didn't even stand a chance of winning races and competing for the title, I don't think I would be that interested in continuing my career.

Everyone can run the race, but not to the same place.

Everyone can run the race, but not at the same pace.

She's really beating the stuffing out of him. What do you think we should do? Sell tickets. - Riker and Worf

Introverts do better alone with competition, extraverts do better in large group without competition

Only productivity of the knowledge worker can make it possible for developed countries to maintain their high standard of living against the competition of low-wage, developing economies. So

Far more often, the unexpected success is simply not seen at all. Nobody pays any attention to it. Hence, nobody exploits it, with the inevitable result that the competitor runs with it and reaps the rewards.

The worst kind of replacement planning is the search for a "crown prince." A crown prince either has a legal right to succeed; or else nomination is likely to destroy him. No matter how carefully concealed, picking a crown prince is an overt act which the whole organization very rapidly perceives. And then all the other possible contenders unite against the crown prince and work to bring him down—and they usually succeed.

Cotton Mather lusted all his life for the presidency of Harvard, a post his father had held, and which the son affected to despise, especially after others were chosen; he was a prig and a meddler; an unscrupulous ideologue and a windy orator; a scribbler who praised simplicity in flowery circumlocutions, so anxious to see his production in print that it might be said of him, with little fear of exaggeration, that he would rather lose his soul than misplace a manuscript.

Is science a fundamentally cooperative enterprise, or is it a fundamentally competitive one in which scientists are out for personal advancement? According to Hull (and also Merton), science runs on a combination of cooperation and competition. Neither is fundamental, and the special features of science are due to an interaction between the two. This interaction arises from the reward system found in science and the context in which the reward system operates.

Game theory says that the true source of uncertainty lies in the intentions of others.

I'm always on the lookout for great companies in lousy industries. A great industry that's growing fast, such as computers or medical technology, attracts too much attention and too many competitors.