Quotes About Competition

Men needed the test of competition to find their better selves, Lombardi insisted, whether it was in sports, politics or business.

It's not enough that I should succeed - others should fail.

But human nature dictates that there will always be cheaters. That's inevitable. Where there's money involved and glory, there are going to be people that cheat, and there will always be ways to cheat.

She glanced at the other diners, all of them going into their act, and thought is this what it all boils down to? Romantic love, is this all it is, a talent show?

Can advertising foist an inferior product on the consumer? Bitter experience has taught me that it cannot. On those rare occasions when I have advertised products which consumer tests have found inferior to other products in the same field, the results have been disastrous.

The easiest way to get new clients is to do good advertising. During one period of seven years, we never failed to win an account for which we competed, and all I did was to show the campaigns we had created.

Some copywriters write tricky headlines – double meanings, puns and other obscurities. This is counter-productive. In the average newspaper your headline has to compete with 350 others. Readers travel fast through this jungle. Your headline should telegraph what you want to say.

You get nothing for coming second, son. Because if you are second, you are nothing. You are nowhere – First is first. Second is nowhere.

And remember, Liverpool reserves are not just any team. Liverpool reserves are the second-best team in the land, son. The only team better than the Liverpool reserve team is the Liverpool first team.

But it's over. It's over and you know it- No League Championships. No FA Cups. No European Cups- The roar and the whistle. The applause and the adoration- Finished forever. Second best. Forever.

Most bacteriologists were trained as medical men—Burnet himself had been, before going into bacteriological research—and "their interest in general biological problems was very limited." They cared about curing and preventing diseases, which was well and good; less so about pondering infection as a biological phenomenon, a relationship between creatures, equal in fundamental importance to such other relationships as predation, competition, and decomposition.

Why Big Fierce Animals Are Rare.

Habitat doesn't replicate itself. Places get crowded. Creatures go hungry. They struggle. The result is competition and deprivation and misery, winners and losers, unsuccessful efforts to breed and, for the less fortunate individuals, early death. Many are called, but few are chosen. The book that awakened Darwin to this reality was An Essay on the Principle of Population, by a severely logical clergyman and scholar named Thomas Malthus.

There can be no rise in the value of labour without a fall of profits.

Unburdened by the legacy costs and organizational inertia of more mature competitors, these new technologies quickly replaced established technologies and destroyed the incumbents' core markets.

As Lucy says, "Winning isn't everything; winning big is!" Most of us need to win big. The problem, however, is that there seems to be a law of diminishing returns: the bigger wins give a decreasing measure of satisfaction.

Play the game by their rules (professionals), or play your own game, with your own set of rules, that follow common sense and have a much better chance of winning. It is your choice!

Professionals are forced to read mountains of research to stay ahead of the competition, forced to develop complex financial models and sophisticated charts, and, most importantly, explain themselves to impatient and demanding investors once a month through newsletters and presentations. All

In a competitive market environment, as an individual investor, you could study the global economy, your local economy, or any single company to death and still come to the wrong investment conclusions, as do many professionals. Ask

Capitalism implies and induces insecurity, which is constantly being exploited, of course, by all sorts of people selling things.

The commonest mistake in history is underestimating your opponent; it happens at the poker table all the time.

We're not in an Age of Politics, we're in an Age of Netflix. It's who can tell the most compelling story who wins.

What I liked was that the game was not always on the goal line out there. It wasn't always life and death. There were time-out signs. It was a nicer game.

Si ganas es porque los otros son peores, no por un mérito. [...] Uno triunfa no por su genialidad, sino por su menosmalidad. Por ser menos malo que los otros.