Quotes About Competition

You can't really win without serving and passing, you got to hit the ball in the court.

Passing is one of my main objectives in the game and when I make a lot of passes I'm happy.

Big companies have small moves, small companies have big moves.

Rules? You don't even know what game we're playing, mister.

Your Personal Brand is your weapon in the visibility battle.

you should never bet money on a boxer who crosses himself before a fight, because any fighter relying on the grace of god is a dead duck.

From chapter on Getting Started at Stanford). Go ahead, go to all your parties. Go ahead and go home to your families and friends every weekend. You are probably smarter than me. But it doesn't matter. While you are goofing around, I'm gonna be studying, and I'm gonna catch you.

The only sustainable competitive advantage is an organization's ability to learn faster than the competition.

That's what his stare has been saying to me all this time: 'At least I galloped - when did you?

There are similarities between business and sport, in the pressures involved and in the fitness aspect too.

The reason they all failed and the reason they were big is that someone was already there.

Forests and meat animals compete for the same land. The prodigious appetite of the affluent nations for meat means that agribusiness can pay more than those who want to preserve or restore the forest. We are, quite literally, gambling with the future of our planet – for the sake of hamburgers

Modernity has invented the loser.

La cultura de masas presupone el fracaso de todo intento de hacer de uno alguien interesante, lo que significa hacerse mejor que los otros

I didn't feel any remorse or sympathy if I injured a rival. I went over the top a few times but I never broke anyone's leg.

There is no just playing to catch the leader in a pick-and-pray—once your picks are in, that's it.

Michael Beychok: "I became a successful bettor when I started playing the tournaments.

Most experienced tournament players understand that you tend to win in clusters anyway.

One piece of advice that I would give people playing pick-and-prays

you need a bomb in the final race, so no matter what, you want a bomb in the last leg.

We know that, over the past 10,000 years, larger polities consistently outcompeted smaller ones, with the result that 99.8 percent of people today live in countries with populations of one million or more.

Our oversized brains evolved, in large part, to detect and resist manipulation by those who want to get ahead at our expense.

These four mechanisms, (1) competition between groups, (2) competition within groups, (3) cultural distance between competing groups, and (4) cultural homogeneity within groups are not the only processes that can affect the spread of cooperation norms.

During disintegrative trend reversals, these processes work in reverse. Abatement of elite overproduction decreases intraelite competition. Additionally, there is another curious dynamic that tends to increase intraelite homogeneity, the "closing of the patriciate", in which the established elites close their ranks to newcomers and dramatically reduce, or even reverse upward social mobility.