Quotes About Competition

Making it to the Final Four, you feel like you're watched on campus. You're in the classroom, professors are talking about it.

Sometimes, I have lost out on a gig because I was not high enough profile.

The profile is to find if someone can perform in the Championship and help you win, and also play in the Premier League because that has to be the goal.

Profit, wealth creation, competition - these are not dirty words but the lifeblood of a dynamic economy.

In the U.S., PC-makers have no incentive to lower prices because it kills their profit margins. They keep adding new features like high-end retina displays and faster processors to justify their high prices.

So we really need jobs now. We have to take jobs away from other countries because other countries are taking our jobs. There is practically not a country that does business with the United States that isn't making - let's call it a very big profit. I mean China is going to make $300 billion on us at least this year.

Even if you sell the same number of plasma televisions - if you are selling them for 20 or 30 or 40 per cent of the original price, your revenue goes down, and the profit goes with it.

In general, you don't want competitors to understand your business outside of telling people your revenue and profitability numbers.

I just want to make a difference. I want to make Chrysler the most profitable car company in the United States.

I think there's no reason the Davis Cup couldn't be as powerful and popular and profitable as any of the four majors are today, given some changes.

At a European auto show, I had someone from a German car company come up to me and say the Karma should cost $125,000, not $87,900, but our development process lets us lower the costs. I guarantee it's profitable.

If we are not more efficient, we put ourselves in a position where prices need to rise or profits deteriorate in a way that makes us less attractive to investors.

Socialized medicine allows a nation to exclude a U.S. product from its market if the U.S. firm does not make generous enough price concessions. Accordingly, what has developed is a system within which U.S. firms make large profits on new drugs in the U.S. market, but very low profits on sales everywhere else.

A crash is when your competitor's program dies. When your program dies, it is an 'idiosyncrasy'.

Arizona was the best place. I like the competition in baseball, and the football program has been great for the past five years. I think I'll be playing as a freshman in both sports, and I think I can play with them.

I'm not going to apologize for having a great team and a great program and a bunch of committed guys, and Coach Saban is not, either.

Obviously it's critical that the three cars are able to contribute to the program. I think that certainly has given much of the reason as to why we did so well at Indy over the last several years.

Colleges will try to get the good students. That's the way to go. When I chaired my department of Materials Engineering at the Technion in 1990, we started a program for which we set the bar very high. It was the highest at the Technion, above electrical engineering and medicine.

The previous year it had taken England all their time to beat the full German team in an international and I had taken with me the programme from that match.

There have been times I've said a few things in anger when we've lost. But it's just how I'm programmed. I want to win.

I think that genetically we're programmed to battle each other.

In my view, the fact that computers caught up to humans and completely dominate humans in chess and some other domains already, that says there's evidence that, yes, in principle, they can be better programmers than humans.

Colleges would compete by adding professors, enhancing programmes or building nicer facilities. So they competed by making institutions better.

I'm in the factory a lot so I see how hard the guys work, but you never really know how quickly and effectively the other teams' development programmes are going until you get to the track. It's only then that we will be able to tell.