Quotes About Competition

Don't race against others. Race against yourself

There's a ton of competition at ordinary, but there's almost none at extraordinary.

truly enlightened people never seek to be like others. Rather, they seek to be superior to their former selves. Don't race against others. Race against yourself

observó el señor Riley— tienen menos capacidad innata que aquellos con los que compiten. Pero son su dedicación, su compromiso y su tenacidad para optimizar cualquiera de sus potencialidades lo que los convierten en iconos.

Everyone is different. One of the fundamental principles that Yogi Raman taught me was that truly enlightened people never seek to be like others. Rather, they seek to be superior to their former selves. Don't race against others. Race against yourself," Julian replied.

They were our friends because we hated them; it was good to have them around. I was cleaner than them, brainier than them. I was better than them.

I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out.

Given the American example, it should always have been obvious that the sacred canopy claims are silly. In the United States, in the most fully pluralistic nation that probably has ever existed, religion is thriving. And it is absolutely clear that it is competition among religious groups, each needing to effectively recruit members or fade away, that has produced these results.

Nevertheless, this too is a myth. The Catholic Church actually thrives on Protestant competition and is far more successful and effective when forced to confront it.

Brainfluence Takeaway: Make Your Customers Feel Like Members of a Group Have you been able to make your customers feel different from those of your competition? Does your brand have a tribe? Have you been able to define an enemy group that strengthens the cohesiveness of your own? If you can accomplish this and fan the flames of rivalry, you'll create not only more loyal customers but also brand advocates and evangelists.

Chess looks like a zero-sum game; if one loses, the other wins—until a dog trots by and knocks over the table, spills the beer, and leaves you both worse off than before.

Imagine the big rating agencies as three competitive saloons standing side by side, with each free to set its own drinking age. Before long, nine-year-olds would be downing bourbon

Hewlett-Packard is somewhat riskier than GE; Amazon.com, riskier still.

The condition of society is essentially one of domination, in which people are bound to each other by their attachments, and distinguished by rivalries and competition.

Instead of the benign competition to secure a market share, we discover a malign competition to externalize costs. The firm that can transfer its costs to others has the advantage over the one that must meet its costs itself, and if the costs can be transferred so widely that it is impossible to identify a victim, they can be effectively written off.

After presenting his completed sequences, he analysed the errors the others had made. You should never have thrown away the knave of hearts, he told Dina. That's why you lost. I took a chance.

Isolation and competition are inhospitable to learning.

The difficulty of the amorous project is in this: Just show me who to love then get out of my way! Countless episodes in which I fall in love with someone loved by my best friend: every rival has first been a master, a guide, a barker, a mediator.

Until the advent of fast railway trains, in the late nineteenth century, a skier was the fastest human being on earth.

The world is divided into people who do things and people who get the credit. Try, if you can, to belong to the former. There's far less competition. (Dwight Morrow)

Burr is said to have remarked, "Had I read Sterne more and Voltaire less, I should have known the world was wide enough for Hamilton and me.

John Adams summed up the case succinctly: "In general, our generals have been outgeneralled.

This relentless price war forced Tidewater to operate at half capacity.

He said that he felt that the time had about come when the companies should work together with a view of preventing other companies from engaging in the business