Quotes About Competition

Running taught me valuable lessons. In cross-country competition, training counted more than intrinsic ability, and I could compensate for a lack of natural aptitude with diligence and discipline. I applied this in everything I did. Even as a student, I saw many young men who had great natural ability, but who did not have the self-discipline and patience to build on their endowment.

En las competiciones campo a través, el entrenamiento es más importante que cualquier talento innato, y eso me permitía compensar mi falta de aptitudes naturales por medio de la disciplina y la diligencia. Aplicaba este principio a todo lo que hacía.

but he was big and, superwoman or not, Anna knew when all else was equal, big won. Young won. The point was to make sure all else was as unequal as possible.

To be human was to be melodramatic, to feel things acutely, love and hate and lust, to search for the Holy Grail, outrun the other kids in the fifty-yard dash and care mightily about it.

everybody's got ten good reasons to do away with everybody else. It's just nobody knows how. Do 'how.

Some games are fun even when you lose. Even when you know you're going to lose before you start. It's fun just playing them.

Politics and war are remarkably similar situations.

Governor Romney may be running for CEO, I'm running for President

I wondered: is that the secret of doing deals? Is that the secret of life? If you care less than the other person, then you win. Was that me?

A conspiracy, in short, is based on small groups with inherently competing interests. At some point in the evolution of the competition between two or more groups (and in some cases, within subversive groups), there are rumors or allegations made of sinister behavior or a secretive plot developed by the members or the leadership of the groups. Occasionally, the groups will have diametrically opposed goals and this leads to further subversion.

It was a race to see which ship could fire

The French and Spanish ships were bigger and better armed, but the British were better sailors.

To lose is to win, and he who wins shall lose.

lawyer and technology writer Richard Koman, argued that Google "has become a true believer in its own goodness, a belief which justifies its own set of rules regarding corporate ethics, anti-competition, customer service and its place in society.

In the YouTube economy, everyone is free to play, but only a few reap the rewards.

as a utility served more customers, it would become more efficient, allowing it to cut the cost of power further and in turn attract even more customers.

But how a game plan came to be, what a finished plan looked like, I had no idea. I'd heard that all copies were shredded as soon as the game was over.

Other people's success spurs me on to do well and gives me motivation.

If markets change then so must brands.

The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat. —LILY TOMLIN

Even a market with a single domestic monopolistic producer could be competitive if either the good or service the monopolist produces is tradable and barriers to imports are low or the barriers to foreign direct investment are modest.

She did move. Because she wanted to win. She wanted wealth and glory and whatever else it was that made people think that participating in this monstrosity that called itself the Game of Death would be somehow worth it. Celebrity, maybe. That seemed important to a lot of people, Rechs had noticed. As if it made everything—all things—better. Or right. She pulled hard on the trigger as she

Poker: the art of civilized bushwhacking.

The house doesn't beat the player. It just gives him the opportunity to beat himself.