Quotes About Competition

You can get the dart player out of the pub, but you can't get the pub out of the dart player.

I didnt even own my own set of darts until 2012 when my mate started a team in the pub and wed just play on a Friday night.

As I got into middle school, I was really an outcast. But everybody was an outcast in middle school. I don't know who got the idea to put all kids going through puberty together in a school and give them academic elitism and competition and pit them against each other.

Antitrust law isn't about protecting competing businesses from each other, it's about protecting competition itself on behalf of the public.

You can't have public health without a public health system. We just don't want to be part of a mindless competition for resources. We want to build back capacity in the system.

With consumers having ever more choice, corporations must invest more and more in courting public opinion.

In terms of other functions, we are making a mistake about insisting on a public school monopoly.

A high-speed connection is no more an essential civil right than 3G cell phone service or a Netflix account. Increasing competition and restoring academic excellence in abysmal public schools is far more of an imperative to minority children than handing them iPads.

Charter schools were supposed to compete with public schools, and in turn, that competition was meant to improve education. But that wasn't the end result.

The candidates we have in this campaign are... the most accomplished, in terms of public service, that we've had since 1960. One of them will be successful.

There was kind of a pivotal moment in my life in junior high school when my English teacher told me I should be a part of the public speaking competition.

There are 2,000 young-adult novels published a year, and hardly any of them ever break out.

It's very hard to get one publisher to accept an author going over to the other author's company to collaborate.

When a single author uploading his own books to Amazon can earn more money than a large N.Y. publisher exploiting both print and e-rights, there's something amiss.

Just because we're Knopf doesn't mean we shouldn't sell books as well as any other publisher in the land.

There were eleven publishers in New York City, and when it was all over, I think it went down to four or five, and then finally just the three of them, the Big Three.

Publishers are looking for blockbusters - all the world loves a megaseller.

Higher ebook prices only benefit one group: publishers.

When there are fewer and fewer publishers of scale, it's just not good for authors.

Self-publishing has been a dubious challenge to traditional publishers, at best.

Publishing had been successful where there had been natural geographic monopolies.

Publishing parental pay benefits will let employers show that they're family-friendly and enable them to better attract talent, potentially spurring on some very healthy competition.

The sport has come on - we do not just play in pubs any more and there are massive international competitions.

I'd been gigging since I was 14, doing little competitions and pubs and clubs and old people's homes.