Quotes About Competition

Book-publishing is all about politics. Agents, editors, which books will be puffed, which ignored, etc.

Economics dominates politics - and with that domination comes different forms of ruthlessness.

Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.

Politics is about winning. If you don't win, you don't get to put your principles into practice. Therefore, find a way to win, or sit the battle out.

I was looking for something like baseball, where there's a lot of data and the competition was pretty low. That's when I discovered politics.

I don't think there is anything more bitter in American politics than a close election.

Activity in politics also produces eager competition and sharp rivalry.

It is a game, the whole ball of wax is a game - your life, my life, politics, economy, hunger.

Modern politics is, at bottom, a struggle not of men but of forces.

Politics in Philadelphia is a contact sport.

In politics, as in fishing, you don't have to be a genius. You just have to be smarter than the fish.

It's not so much about the cause, it's about feeling superior to political opponents.

Politics has never been for the thin-skinned or the faint-of-heart, and if you enter the arena, you should expect to get roughed up.

Never quit politicking and never underestimate your opponent.

You know, in politics when you come in third, it's a win.

At bottom, every state regards another as a gang of robbers who will fall upon it as soon as there is an opportunity.

The nation that leads the clean energy economy will be the nation that leads the global economy.

No one is better at not beating America than England.

In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.

Quite obviously power will continue to play a central role in global politics as it always does. But usually there is something else.

I don't know a lot about politics, but I know a lot about baseball.

Look at politics; they're always in competition over an election, who wants to win. It's just who we are, it's what we do.

You know, it's just politics, it's a game grown-ups like to play, like we lil' children play with toys.

Here is one of the first rules of politics: it's not enough that I do well; I must also destroy my enemy.