Quotes About Competition

If you refuse to enter contests that you are capable of losing, you will never lose a contest.

Why do we care about what other people earn or own? Because we tend to regard life as an ongoing competition for social status. When

In advertising, not to be different is virtual suicide.

You may outgun me, outman me, and outspend me. But I'm a writer. I will outplot you.

Competing egos, status struggles, clashes of styles and personalities—this is the stuff conflict thrives upon.

He'd shot a 136—a full ten strokes better than Conner.

Baseball gives every American boy a chance to excel. Not just to be as good as someone else, but to be better. This is the nature of man and the name of the game. - Ted Williams

It's not that [writers] are pompous jerks. We are insecure. We feel like we're fading away in this vast sea of scriveners.

The Jockey Syndrome has been the primary mechanism in American sports for tilting the ostensibly level playing field of sport away from equal opportunity and toward white supremacy.

Tell me how you wish me to deal with these enemies of yours, for they are no able to camp, and I will deliver them in your hands in whatever manner you wish.' Modern accounts invariably include the story of how dal Verme sent Hawkwood a fox in a cage, to say that he had the clever Englishman trapped. -Jacopo dal Verme to Giangaleazzo Visconti

Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another's pain.

It is not true that the English invented cricket as a way of making all other human endeavours look interesting and lively; that was merely an unintended side effect. I don't wish to denigrate a sport that is enjoyed by millions, some of them awake and facing the right way, but it is an odd game.

The wonder of markets is that they reconcile the choices of myriad individuals.

Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.

Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

the true competition is the competition of the individual with himself—his present seeking to excel his past.

Hence it is not upon the masters nor upon the public that trades-unions exert the pressure by which they raise wages; it is upon other persons of the labor class who want to get into the trades, but, not being able to do so, are pushed down into the unskilled labor class. These

If we pull down those who are most fortunate and successful, shall we not by that very act defeat our own object? Those

My favorite story about Danoff's intensity comes from Bill Miller, who recalls being introduced to him at an investment conference in Phoenix about thirty years ago: "I stuck out my hand and I said, 'Nice to meet you, Will.' And he didn't hold his hand out. He just looked at me and said, 'I'm gonna beat you, man. I'm gonna beat you.

The value of most high-tech products is determined by the cost of alternative solutions to the customer.

Positioning is a psychological location in the consumer's mind, pertaining to the relative qualities a company, product, or service may have with respect to its competition.

Time is the deadly enemy of the technology business. Today's great idea is tomorrow's obsolete concept. The longer it takes a company to get its product to the market, the greater the likelihood a competitor will be there first. Big plans with extended schedules are a risk in any business,

Sports, politics, and religion are the three passions of the badly educated.

I am not in favor of having government do anything that private citizens can do as good or better