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Quotes About Competition

Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.
~ Douglas McGregor
I said that more people in more places can now compete, connect and collaborate with equal power and equal tools than ever before.
~ Thomas Friedman
The weapon where the man is sitting in is always superior against the other.
~ Erich Hartmann
Business is in itself a power.
~ Garet Garrett
Marketing is becoming a battle based on information than on sales power.
~ Philip Kotler
If you do not have the power to compete with the best believers in good deeds, then compete with the sinners in asking for Allah's forgiveness.
~ Ibn Rajab
Femininity is a lot of power. It's allure. And the moment you start competing directly with a man, it's not that fun.
~ Carolina Herrera
The oil companies regard nuclear power as their rival, who will reduce their profits, so they put out a lot of disinformation about nuclear power.
~ James Lovelock
Sociopaths love power. They love winning. If you take loving kindness out of the human brain, there's not much left except the will to win.
~ Martha Stout
Big fish eat small fish with as much right as they have power.
~ Baruch Spinoza
Greater powers and resources do not guarantee tactical superiority.
~ Sun Bin
I think money in general hurts all sports.
~ Will McDonough
Baseball is a skilled game. It's America's game -- it, and high taxes
~ Will Rogers
The difference between a Republican and a Democrat is the Democrat is a cannibal -- they have to live off each other--while the Republicans, why, they live off the Democrats.
~ Will Rogers
If advertisers spent the same amount of money on improving their products as they do on advertising then they wouldn't have to advertise them.
~ Will Rogers
The best thing about this group of candidates is that only one of them can win.
~ Will Rogers
In Hollywood you can see things at night that are fast enough to be in the Olympics in the day time.
~ Will Rogers
I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.
~ Will Rogers
Successful colleges will start laying plans for a new stadium; unsuccessful ones will start hunting a new coach.
~ Will Rogers
Researchers find our reward systems are activated most when we achieve relative rather than absolute rewards; we're designed to feel best not when we get more, but when we get more than those around us.
~ Will Storr
Al die beurzen, prijzen en stipendia,' zei hij, 'ben je werkelijk zo naïef te denken dat die bij begaafde studenten terechtkomen? Trouwens, wat is een begaafde student? Een begaafde kontenlikker, als je het mij vraagt.
~ Willem Frederik Hermans
The kind of elitists I admire are those who ruthlessly seek out and encourage intelligence and who believe that competition—and, inevitably, some measure of failure—will do more for character than coddling ever can. My kind of elitist does not grade on a curve and is willing to flunk the whole class.
~ William A. Henry III
Coolidge declared later that no one knew that McCall had told him to run and "some supposed I would run against him." But Coolidge was not of that stripe.
~ William Allen White
Marcus: "Yes, they say that life is more like wrestling than like dancing.
~ William B. Irvine