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Quotes About Competition

When people are frightened about going hungry and paying their mortgages, a scarcity model begins to prevail; they fear someone else will get their piece of the pie.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Individually, we've taken the world on and won; together, we must take on the challenge of creating a new, peaceful, humane and competitive nation and prevail.
~ Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
Sometimes in football, the best team does not necessarily win; it's the team that plays best on the day that prevails.
~ Chris Coleman
Dominant companies have a special responsibility to ensure that the way they do business doesn't prevent competition... and does not harm consumers and innovation.
~ Mario Monti
At the end of the day, if I can prevent the shot from getting to the rim, it's going to help my team.
~ Pat Connaughton
When I first started acting, somebody once said to me that anything that is a problem that prevents you from getting a job will eventually be a strength. It works both ways. The odder you are, the harder it is to get work, but once you sort of establish it, you have no competition.
~ Tom Noonan
We felt like when we went into last year we had a pretty good chance to win the championship from the previous year with the fall we put together. We've got the same everything now, so I think we can come back and be as strong this year.
~ Sterling Marlin
Life creates new heroes, and new heroes always find it easiest to beat up on the previous heroes.
~ Lech Walesa
At the start of every game, you are focussed on the game you are playing, so you don't look back at previous games.
~ Jesus Navas
Our focus is to see that we are growing faster than the industry and, whichever product we launch, we do better than competition. We try and manage our operations better than competition. Essentially, we try to be better than what we were the previous year.
~ Dilip Shanghvi
Winning and losing is part of the game and it's not that we are the first team to have lost a match; previous teams also have faced defeats.
~ Sarfaraz Ahmed
My competition is always with my previous song. Each time I start working on a new track, I try to make it better than my last one.
~ Jubin Nautiyal
It's always a special game when you play against your previous club.
~ Georginio Wijnaldum
I get very competitive with myself and always look to better myself from my previous projects. I have learned that it's important to work on the craft than the project.
~ Tahir Raj Bhasin
I'm competing with myself to outdo previous achievements, but I can't feel any pressure from the fans, the media or the people at all because I know what I'm capable of.
~ Polo G
Competition-driven innovation and price pressure that commercial practices foster can only make human spaceflight ever more common and U.S. leadership in this domain ever clearer.
~ Alan Stern
Auctions create greater price discovery and liquidity, resulting in a very meaningful final auction price. If you were building a securities exchange today, an auction would be a core feature.
~ Tyler Winklevoss
Because you want to have competition to drive down the price. You want innovation. You have the ability to get people to agree that it's worth having a public plan. You could get private insurers to cover this population, but you couldn't without giving the population leverage in the marketplace.
~ Maria Cantwell
A company's best advantage should be a quality product offered at the right price. That fair competition is what drives innovation.
~ Chellie Pingree
A common price isn't the lowest price. It will most obviously be the highest price.
~ Alexey Miller
The Price Is Right can really get me going.
~ Sam Peckinpah
The big problem for atomic energy is that it can't compete on price with the new age of cheap shale gas and, to a lesser extent, clean coal.
~ Stephen Moore
Many of our constituents have one option for cable TV and one price. Our constituents desire choice.
~ Melissa Bean
Now it will take a long time to scale biofuels, but I'm the only one in the world forecasting oil dropping in price to $35 a barrel by 2030. I'll put it on the record: Oil will not be able to compete with cellulosic biofuels. If you do it from food, the food will get so expensive you can't make fuel out of it.
~ Vinod Khosla