Quotes About Competition

A chess game, after all, is a fight in which all possible factors must be made use of, and in which a knowledge of the opponent's good and bad qualities is of the greatest importance.

Great minds are always feared by lesser minds.

The control of knowledge is the crux of tomorrow's worldwide struggle for power in every human institution.

Whoever claims that economic competition represents survival of the fittest in the sense of the law of the jungle, provides the clearest possible evidence of his lack of knowledge of economics.

It's no accident that capitalism has brought with it progress, not merely in production but also in knowledge. Egoism and competition are, alas, stronger forces than public spirit and sense of duty.

In a world of commoditized knowledge, the returns go to the companies who can produce non-standard knowledge.

In this knowledge-worker age, it's now increasingly tied to doing well in school so you can get into better grad schools so you can get better jobs - so the pressure to do well is really high.

I think that the failure of newspaper competition in a community is a very serious handicap to the dissemination of the knowledge that the citizens need to participate in a democracy.

Politics and Sport were invented to give unknowledgeable people an opportunity to share their knowledge.

The sky cannot have two suns.

If wanting to win is a fault, as some of my critics seem to insist, then I plead guilty. I like to win. I know no other way. It's in my blood.

I think the Americans are ready to play, they want to beat us. I think that players like Chris Chelios and his leadership over there goes a long way.

In baseball you hit your home run over the right-field fence, the left-field fence, the center-field fence. Nobody cares. In golf everything has got to be right over second base.

A real businessman or entrepreneur has no enemies. Once he understand this, the sky's the limit.

Your most dangerous competitors are those that are most like you.

Get the winners into the game.

But it's still a coach's game. Make no mistake. You start at the top. If you don't have a good one at the top, you don't have a cut dog's chance.

[Michael] Gove will be the underdog fighting for the underdog in this leadership race.

Even though he lived on the beach in college, he didn't have a tan. Now that's a serious player!

Barack Obama has said he doesn't believe in American leadership or America winning - he is wrong. America can win again and we will win again.

I've never been an individual guy. I never cared about the accolades. I've always been driven by the competition and the learning process.

That's what Chess is all about. One day you give your opponent a lesson, the next day he gives you one

Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.

There's no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance.