Quotes About Competition

College football: I do not see the relationship of those highly industrialized affairs on Saturday afternoons to higher learning in America.

A good relationship is a competition of generosity.

So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die that is to say, civilization will die.

The game, the game: here we go again. All glory to it, all things I am and own because of Roller Ball Murder.

In 1894 Alexander Graham Bell's telephone patents expired. Within a few years, over 6,000 local telephone companies were competing for the U.S. market.

Smith argued that two conditions were necessary for labor to produce the maximum amount of wealth: perfect competition among sellers—everyone pursuing his or her selfish interest, the famous "invisible hand"—and the complete freedom of buyers to substitute one commodity for another.

In reality, a higher level of war always trumps a lower.

If you wish in this world to advance, Your merits you're bound to enhance; You must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet. Or trust me, you haven't a chance.

Decide on some imperfect Somebody and you will win, because the truest truism in politics is You can't beat Somebody with Nobody.

This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games. All games are basically hostile. Winners and losers. We see them all around us: the winners and the losers. The losers can oftentimes become winners, and the winners can very easily become losers.

Hustlers of the world, there is one Mark you cannot beat: The Mark Inside.

Lest too light winningMake the prize light.

We may outrun By violent swiftness And lose by over-running.

Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land the great ones eat up the little ones.

Out-paramoured the Turk.

They threw their capsAs they would hang them on the horns o' the moon,Shouting their emulation.

And the main fight will be over water, not oil.

The chase, the sport of kings;Image of war, without its guilt.

there is no point in being either for or against "the free market" as such. The key question is: When is a market free?

What sustains this "win-lose" mindset is a sense of scarcity, the fear that there is just not enough to go around, so we need to look out for ourselves even at the expense of others.

The bigger story was competition causing more productive business enterprises to replace less productive ones...However, it provides even more reason to worry about all the people living in economies where protection and distortion of competition allow unproductive enterprises to persist and cause these people to fall further behind, but even more importantly, to remain in poverty.

Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.

Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business. But what is most truly is is disguised combat. For all its gentility, its almost leisurely pace, baseball is violence under wraps.

I don't rate them, I just hit them.