Quotes About Competition

Don't fear sharing your best ideas online: 1) Competition already knows what you are up to 2) People like leaders not followers.

I think it's one of the main negative emotional ingredients that fuels show business, because there's so much at stake and the fear of failure looms large.

You get so afraid of failure and so afraid of losing and so afraid of not being the best that it's not a natural drive - it's born out of fear of failure. Which helps in Hollywood.

A merchant who approaches business with the idea of serving the public well has nothing to fear from the competition.

I would be more familiar with Janet Jackson than I was with the Teardrop Explodes or Joy Division, because I didn't want to listen to my competitors for fear of nicking ideas off them.

At 16, 17, you have no fear. You don't think or analyze. You just play on automatic. You can get smarter as you get older, but in sports you can be too smart, you know?

The three things I fear most in golf are lightning, Ben Hogan and a downhill putt.

The thing that makes [Bob] Kennedy so good is that he doesn't have a fear of losing. He was willing to go to Europe and get hammered.

I have never been a killer. I'm not an aggressive personality and if I can remember any emotion I felt during a race it was fear. The greatest stimulator of my running was fear.

We worried about competitors, but it was an unreasonable fear. As a friend once pointed out, most gunshot wounds are self-inflicted.

In the achievement of greater performances, of beating formidable rivals, the athlete defeats fear and conquers himself.

Those who build and perpetuate mediocrity...are motivated more by the fear of being left behind.

The one thing I was good at was winning scholarships and prizes, and that era was coming to an end.

Describing one competitive advantage of IBM's Deep Blue chess computer. It has no fear.

But never fear, gentlemen; castration was really not the point of feminism, and we women are too busy eviscerating one another to take you on.

Some parents believe that competition helps prepare children to succeed. Others fear that their children will not be able to handle failure.

In Hollywood, if you have any success, you have this fear: What do you have to do to hang onto it?

I had a fear of losing, a fear of what might happen if I had a bad game. Would I get dropped? I don't remember a lot of stuff in my career.

Boys with a 'failure to launch' are invisible to most girls. With poor social skills, the boys feel anger at their fear of being rejected and self-loathing at their inability to compete.

Pitching is the art of instilling fear by making a man flinch.

If life is a race, chasing your dream should be your aim, not competing with others

A sad fact in life is that you cannot have winners without losers, no matter what you do; it's up to you to make out which one you are.

People will wish you the best in life and hate you when you make it.

There is no room for jealousy in business. If someone is doing a better job than you are, either find a way to improve yourself or join forces with that person.