Quotes About Competition

In dueling with Scott, Rockefeller didn't try to demolish him—as Scott might have done to him—but called a truce to strengthen their alliance.

winning at any cost.

This policy, which kept colleagues from defecting and forming competing companies, was one of many expensive extravagances that accompanied the creation of the monopoly.

Having outsmarted the largest railroad, Rockefeller had acquired a stranglehold on the three major roads, and his taming of the imperious Tom Scott guaranteed that no railroad president would ever dare to tangle with him again.

It came about not because bankers were strong but because companies were still weak.

Since railroads were natural monopolies and couldn't survive much direct competition, they could be easily threatened by small competitors

With finely honed political instincts, George Clinton saw that Hamilton was overreaching, and he secretly aided King's candidacy in order to drive a wedge between the Schuylers and the Livingstons. When New York picked its second senator on July 16, 1789, Rufus King came out on top. Just as Clinton suspected, Chancellor Robert R. Livingston was irate and gradually moved into the governor's camp.

Standard merely had to dump oil at cost to stamp out competitors.

That's just how it is, you know, she said. Women always choose men over other women.

I've defined myself, privately and publicly, by my brief, intense years as an athlete, a swimmer. I practices five or six hours a day, six days a week, eating and sleeping as much as possible. Weekends were either spent training or competing. I wasn't the best; I was relatively fast...

We both sat there mute, as if we were in a no-talking competition and serious about winning.

We don't teach them to fight fair, and we don't start a fight.

This is why we need more women officers. For us it's enough to win. For you, the other guy has to know he lost.

We both sat there mute, as if we were in a no-talking competition and serious about winning. I

any structure that has a ranking system tempts you to try to climb it.

Some kind of internecine conflict, over the spoils.

He had many formal qualifications. He was rated expert on all small arms. He had won an inter-service thousand-yard rifle competition with a record score. Anecdotally his fitness reports rated him well above average in the classroom, excellent in the field, fluently bilingual in English and French, passable in Spanish, outstanding on all man-portable weaponry, and beyond outstanding at hand-to-hand combat. Susan knew what that last rating meant. Like having a running chain saw thrown at you.

Sanderson walked to her starting position, and Reacher went with her. He wanted to know she was still chewing. Or if not, whether that was a good thing or bad. She was still chewing. Doing OK. He hoped she wasn't peaking too early. She had the Ruger Standard. The .22. Two rounds in it. It was all she would take. Bramall had the Colt .45. Three rounds in it. Mackenzie had the empty Springfield. Better than nothing. Like the man said, ninety percent of everything was striking a pose.

key. I need to move up into Duke's job. Then I'll be top boy on Beck's side. Then I'll

He sat up, his chest moving, his mouth open as if he'd run the annual San Francisco Bay to Breakers race in record time instead of, as the event intended, having fun.

Humans usually try to guess the pattern, and in the process we allow ourselves to be outperformed by a rat.

in 1958, the average life span of companies in the S&P 500 was sixty-one years. Today it is about twenty.

The Lion and the Unicorn were fighting for the crown: The Lion beat the Unicorn all around the town. Some gave them white bread, some gave them brown: Some gave them plum-cake and drummed them out of town.

I don't suppose there'll be a tree left standing, for ever so far around, by the time we're finished.'" Tweedledum to tweedledee [They are fighting over a rattle]. Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, p. 156