Quotes About Competition

If I had been on 'Bowling for Dollars ' I'd wind up owing them money.

And the reason you play American Football, Hiruma-san?" "Because it's fun." (Translated)

The race is not always to the swift nor the battle to the strong - but that's the way to bet.

Competitive advantage, he reasoned, could best be thought of in waves, with the job of the strategist being to seize strategic initiative by launching ever-new

Sport strips away personality, letting the white bone of character shine through. Sport gives players an opportunity to know and test themselves.

The very concept of "industry" is an artificial categorization. Often the most important competition any business will face is from entrants who are not hamstrung by assumptions about what their "industry" expects of them.

If there's one thing that really spoils [fill in blank with anything good], it's OTHER PEOPLE.

Love dies in many different ways, and it's natural for the grass to seem greener on the other side. But it's not a competition; there's plenty of pain to go around.

More than ever, the creation of the ridiculous is almost impossible because of the competition it receives from reality.

For no one makes aggresive war unless he excepts to win

Based upon the tournament results and the formal propositions, four simple suggestions are offered for individual choice: do not be envious of the other player's success; do not be the first to defect; reciprocate both cooperation and defection; and do not be too clever.

When the players will never meet again, the strategy of defection is the only stable strategy.

All things being equal, you root for your own sex, your own culture, your own locality…and what you want to prove is that you are better than the other person. Whomever you root for represents you; and when he wins, you win."88

The feeling of being in competition for scarce resources has powerfully motivating properties.

All things being equal, you root for your own sex, your own culture, your own locality…and what you want to prove is that you are better than the other person. Whomever you root for represents you; and when he wins, you win.

Therefore, when children of different racial groups are thrown into the incessant, harsh competition of the standard American classroom, we ought to—and do—see hostilities worsen.

Em condições normais, você torce por seu sexo, sua cultura, sua localidade [...] e o que você quer provar é que você é melhor do que a outra pessoa. Seja quem for a pessoa por quem você torce, ela representa você; e quando vence, você vence.

Each prospect who was interested enough to want to see the car was given an appointment time—the same appointment time. So, if six people were scheduled, they were all scheduled for, say, 2:00 that afternoon. This little device of simultaneous scheduling paved the way for later compliance because it created an atmosphere of competition for a limited resource.

The invisible hand of the marketplace is connected to a wealthy and muscular arm.

The most important political competition over the next decades will not be between the right and left or between Republicans and Democrats. It will be between a majority of Americans who have been losing ground and an economic elite that refuses to recognize or respond to the majority's growing distress.

They used the façade of Bork's pinched academic analysis to justify killing off antitrust.

Markets need rules for determining the degree to which economic power can be concentrated without damaging the system.

China has a national economic strategy designed to create more and better jobs. We have global corporations designed to make money for their shareholders. No contest.

The Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 and its companion, the Clayton Act of 1914, were designed not only to improve economic efficiency by reducing the market power of economic giants like the railroads and oil companies but also to prevent companies from becoming so large that their political power would undermine democracy. Trustbusters during the first decades of the twentieth century tamed American industry and arguably saved capitalism from its own excesses.