Quotes About Competition

The North Wind and the Sun

Those who strive are often watched by others who will take advantage of their defeat to benefit themselves.

well you can be sure I'd stop forcing the poor Jews to tart up their humble little temple dedication anniversary into some corn-fed whore of a holiday to compete with our super-slut three-titted Christmas.

Building your brand on quality is like building your house on sand. You can build quality into your product, but that has little to do with your success in the marketplace.

Most marketing mistakes stem from the assumption that you're fighting a product battle rooted in reality.

With a plethora of products in every category, how does a company use advertising to blast its way into the mind? The basic underlying marketing strategy has got to be "reposition the competition." Because there are so few creneaus to fill, a company must create one by repositioning the competitors that occupy the positions in the mind. In other words, to move a new idea or product into the mind, you must first move an old one out.

Traditional marketing is not focused on creating new categories. Traditional marketing is focused on creating new customers. Traditional marketing involves finding out what consumers want and then giving them what they want, better and cheaper than the competition.

When you launch a new product, the first question to ask yourself is not 'How is this new product better than the competition?' but 'First what?' In other words, what category is this new product first in?

Anxiety is the handmaiden of contemporary ambition.

There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks, circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.

Twenty-two guys chasing a ball and a whole crowd screaming their heads off. It was an absurd ritual,

Going into a game of tennis: If you go in determined to win, and then your opponent is playing better than you, you're probably going to get anxious and feel that you're failing. Whereas if you go in determined to play as well as you can, then it doesn't matter if your opponent is a bit better than you or if they start to win: you're not failing.

People hate to see you on high vibes doing something positive or something you love, especially if you're doing it better than them or the people they prop up with their support. -MillYentei

You can't mix your own shine with people who are already shining expecting your shine to be noticed by the world, in all reality you're just keeping them on top in the light.

The downside to being better than everyone is that people seem to think you are pretentious.

Ultimately, all wars can be traced to the simplest of quarrels where man is eager to overpower rather than indulge the other.

There are two kinds of victory in this world,' said the storyteller-sage, 'Vijaya and Jaya. Vijaya is material victory, where there is a loser. Jaya is spiritual victory, where there are no losers. In

Vijaya is conventional victory, victory over the other, over other's minds, a victory where there are winners and losers. Jaya, on the other hand, is victory over oneself, over one's mind, a victory where there are no losers. At

he said that I was obviously really quick-witted and that I should try out for

When you're in a competitive environment, always give out the impression that you don't care. It makes people want you more. If you act desperate, it's over. I think a passive attitude is helpful. It comes naturally because I'm lazy.

sister, you know that?" he asked. "She could beat me

I'd kill to get into Stanford." A you've-got-to-be-kidding laugh snorted across one of the dining tables at the headmaster's house. "Start playing football," whispered another voice. "Then they'll kill to get you.

By picking a few winners, the Race to the Top competition abandoned the traditional idea of equality of educational opportunity, where federal aid favored districts and schools that enrolled students with the highest needs.

It was hard for them to accuse their wives of infidelity when their rival was an invisible man.