Quotes About Competition

You can't have public health without a public health system. We just don't want to be part of a mindless competition for resources. We want to build back capacity in the system.

The more violent the body contact of the sports you watch, the lower the class.

The more violent the body contact of the sports you watch, the lower your class.

Conversely, the degree of territoriality, bitchiness, backstabbing, and vicious infighting for some reason goes way beyond what is normally encountered in other disciplines. If you are planning to enter this field, you need the hide of a rhinoceros.

If there is any larceny in a man, golf will bring it out.

In 1925 a benchwarming rookie. In 1926 a hard hitting regular playing in a world series on a championship team. And in 1927 he was already daring to challenge Babe Ruth for the home run championship.

The boys who write the sports stories knew what was going on and who was doing what. On October 12, 1927, they voted Lou Gehrig the most valuable player in the American League. You see, it was Lou Gehrig who forced the pitchers to pitch to Babe Ruth.

This materialistic and competitive striving and needing 'to have and own' has been linked to deteriorating mental health, especially in young people.16

If you want to make money at some point, remember this, because this is one of the reasons startups win. Big companies want to decrease the standard deviation of design outcomes because they want to avoid disasters. But when you damp oscillations, you lose the high points as well as the low. This is not a problem for big companies, because they don't win by making great products. Big companies win by sucking less than other big companies.

if you can imagine someone surpassing you, you should do it yourself.

If Apple were to grow the iPod into a cell phone with a web browser, Microsoft would be in big trouble.

Respected political and military leaders saw the world as a Darwinian battleground, where the fittest race would emerge triumphant from a savage fight to the death.

those nations which are strongest tend to prevail over the others; and in certain marked peculiarities the strongest tend to be the best.

Golf is a game in which you yell "fore," shoot six, and write down five.

Your so-called "self" is a composite superimposed on the activity of many competing subpersonalities or agents. What you perceive as your consciousness is a string of temporary heroes rising above those they have defeated. And so you seek out heroes in the common story of your race.

In proportion as the machine is improved and performs man's work with an ever increasing rapidity and exactness, the labourer, instead of prolonging his former rest times, redoubles his ardour, as if he wished to rival the machine. O, absurd and murderous competition!

Any man who watches three games of football in a row should be declared legally dead." – Erma Bombeck

Philosophers and poets may be truth seekers. Lawyers only want to win.

As much as we prize our commitment to the individual and pay lip service to the presumption of innocence, it's the government's courthouse, the government's prosecutor, and the government's judge. Every time you go to trial, you are the Miami Dolphins playing an away game against the Patriots in a January blizzard.

Turns out that capitalism is unkillable because it kills every other system first.

It's real hard to come off as even slightly superior when you're living a Tom and Jerry episode.

Money won is twice as sweet as money earned.

Shanghai set out to take over from Hong Kong and I think it's done that. It's got the most amazing futuristic skyline which rivals and even betters Tokyo.

I am not against golf, since I cannot but suspect it keeps armies of the unworthy from discovering trout...