Quotes About Competition

It was not until the late 1970s and early 1980s, when détente was abandoned and American policy grew more confrontational again, that Soviet leaders finally came to fear that that they might not be able to keep up the geopolitical competition, and not just with the United States but with the liberal order more generally.

All things being equal, energizers also win out in the internal labor market by attracting other high performers.

better than Sherman.

If an election were held here tomorrow," Fahd once confided to a colleague, "Bin Baz would beat us without even leaving his house.

Here to win. Not to make 'em mad

People kill for tenure at Steklov. How can you abandon it like that?' 'Everyone in Russia has tenure,' Lemuel observed crabbily. 'The problem is they have tenure in Russia.

only by suffering the rat-race in the arena can the heart learn to beat.

College football: I do not see the relationship of those highly industrialized affairs on Saturday afternoons to higher learning in America.

We are defined as much by our enemies as we are by our friends,

jockey was whipping it mercilessly, but the horse was falling farther behind every second. And the black one, a frisky colt, was simply holding its own, hoping to make it to the finish line without any greater exertion. Nightingale's Song, however, was not spent at all; indeed, the horse seemed only

Of cliques, groups and social intrigues] ... why be alive if you can't like the battle of measuring your contempt or indifferent or interest against that of others?

Love relationships are political. An old Gypsy expression goes: "He who confesses first loses." The first person to say "I love you" has lost because the other, upon hearing it, immediately smiles a knowing smile, realizing that he's the one loved, so he now controls the relationship.

Just because they have a headstart on you does not mean you cannot win the race.

the American public struggles financially is because they play not to lose. They don't play to win.

Companies that are made up of clusters of leaders will actually accelerate their growth by speeding up their rate of innovation as their competition pulls back, build better teams by investing in people while their rivals shrink training budgets, and pick up top talent as their industry peers lay people off. And so fast companies get that unsettling times are actually gifts for them and periods to get so far ahead of the competition that they can never catch up.

Too many people think that if you are nice, you will be eaten alive in today's marketplace.

There's a ton of competition at ordinary, but there's almost none at extraordinary. There's never been such a glamorous opportunity to become peerless because so few people are dedicated to world-class in this age of such scattered focus

Tennis great Billie Jean King said that pressure is a privilege

There's a ton of competition in ordinary, but almost none in extraordinary

Hay una gran competitividad en el nivel ordinario, pero no hay casi ninguna en el nivel extraordinario.

It's the best five players that win the game, not the five best players.

There is nothing noble about being superior to some other person. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.' All I'm really getting at is that if you want to improve your life and live with all that you deserve you must run your own race.

Nunca ha sido tan fácil como ahora manejar el cotarro en los negocios, porque muy pocos competidores invierten los medios necesarios para dominar en su sector. La perfección es una rareza, y la gente que opera al nivel más alto es muy escasa. ¡Así que el triunfo está asegurado!

Una cosa importante a tener en cuenta: Hay una gran competitividad en el nivel ordinario, pero no hay casi ninguna en el nivel extraordinario. Nunca antes se ha dado una oportunidad como esta de volveros líderes inigualables, porque muy pocos trabajan por ser los mejores en este momento de tan poca concentración, de mermados valores y de una fe deteriorada en nosotros mismos, pese al poder primitivo que albergamos en nuestro interior.