Quotes About Competition

So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear. That there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system.

Well first of all, tell me, is there some society you know of that doesn't run on greed? You think Russia doesn't run on greed? You think China doesn't run on greed? What is greed?

The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market. And that's why it's so essential to preserving individual freedom.

There is one and only one social responsibility of business-to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in open and free competition without deception or fraud.

There is one and only one social responsibility of business–to use it resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in open and free competition without deception or fraud

Every morning, Mozasu and his men tinkered with the machines to fix the outcomes—there could only be a few winners and a lot of losers. And yet we played on, because we had hope that we might be the lucky ones.

expected Noa to do the same thing as Mozasu.

Every morning, Mozasu and his men tinkered with the machines to fix the outcomes—there could only be a few winners and a lot of losers. And yet we played on, because we had hope that we might be the lucky ones. How could you get angry at the ones who wanted to be in the game?

People get scared when you try to do something, especially when it looks like you're succeeding. People do not get scared when you're failing. It calms them. But when you're winning, it makes them feel like they're losing or, worse yet, that maybe they should've tried to do something too, but now it's too late. And since they didn't, they want to stop you. You can't let them.

I kind of killed it in college. You know that saying "big fish in a small pond"? At Dartmouth college, I was freakin' Jaws in a community swimming pool.

But when you're winning, it makes them feel like they're losing or, worse yet, that maybe they should've tried to do something too, but now it's too late. And since they didn't, they want to stop you. You can't let them.

when you're winning, it makes them feel like they're losing or, worse yet, that maybe they should've tried to do something too, but now it's too late. And since they didn't, they want to stop you. You can't let them.

They gave you that trophy so you wouldn't feel bad, not because you deserved it. You should know the difference.

I think that the habit of gloomy poetry is very funny. It's like a special competition in losing.

Pojedinac koji ho?e da se uzdigne iznad svojih bližnjih nalik je na kota? na blatnoj cesti: zakotrljao se, ali i zaprljat ?e se!

The depressing thing about tennis is that no matter how good I get, I'll never be as good as a wall.

The invisible hand of the market always moves faster and better than the heavy hand of government.

The answer for healthcare is market incentives, not healthcare by a Godzilla-sized government bureaucracy.

Capitalism is greed driven.

I think to be in politics you have to have the taste for blood on that.

Las barreras en torno al poder, en definitiva, son los obstáculos que impiden que nuevos actores desplieguen suficiente fuerza, código, mensaje y recompensa, por separado o combinados, para tener posibilidades de competir;

Este tan aventajado movimiento político-religioso hace que las campañas rivales se vean y se sientan anémicas.

To put it simply, power no longer buys as much as it did in the past. In the twenty-first century, power is easier to get, harder to use—and easier to lose. From boardrooms and combat zones to cyberspace, battles for power are as intense as ever, but they are yielding diminishing returns.

Power becomes entrenched as a result of barriers that shield incumbents from rivals.