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Quotes About Competition

LeBron James and Dwyane Wade don't just beat you, they snatch your heart.
~ Stephen A. Smith
I've had to guard Dwyane Wade, LeBron James and Dirk Nowitzki. I've had to guard the best person on the opposing team.
~ Jared Dudley
It's great, just to even get mentioned in the category with the type of person like Dwyane Wade, one of the best NBA players in the league today. It's great, and that makes me work even that much harder to be better than him.
~ Dion Waiters
Superior and inferior wage one hundred battles a day.
~ Han Fei
NAFTA recognizes the reality of today's economy - globalization and technology. Our future is not in competing at the low-level wage job; it is in creating high-wage, new technology jobs based on our skills and our productivity.
~ John F. Kerry
I want to wage war against illiteracy, poverty, unemployment, unfair competition, communitarianism, delinquency.
~ Nicolas Sarkozy
With millions of family wage manufacturing jobs lost since 2001, we need an energy bill that takes bold action to tap into American ingenuity in order to lead the world in new clean energy technology, rather than playing catch-up to the Japanese, Danish, and Germans.
~ Jay Inslee
An increase in the relative price of products from the low wage manufacturers in Asia and Latin America will also make those products less attractive to American consumers.
~ Martin Feldstein
It's tough to figure out how do we compete in Europe and North America, when obviously a living wage for us is very different than a living wage in Indonesia.
~ John Malkovich
By raising the minimum wage in California, 700,000 people are going to lose their jobs. There are a lot of opportunities for companies to prosper in Florida and compete here, and that's what I'm going after.
~ Rick Scott
I think we've got to be competitive here in Illinois. It's critical we're competitive. We're hurting our economy by having the minimum wage above the national. We've got to move back to the national.
~ Bruce Rauner
Let me be blunt, employers do have to raise wages if they can't attract enough employees. That's the free market, that's how it works.
~ Pierre Poilievre
Nafta has been responsible for a race to the bottom in standards across North America, with working conditions declining along with wages.
~ Barry Gardiner
There are 20 million unemployed and what does the Constitution offer us in the Europe of 25, 27 and soon to be 30: policies of unrestricted competition to the detriment of production, wages, research and innovation.
~ Laurent Fabius
Firms are not always willing to cut wages, even if there are people lined up outside the gates to work. So why don't they?
~ Janet Yellen
In a free market, businesses compete for customers by keeping prices down and for labor by keeping wages up.
~ Peter Schiff
If we believe in the free market, then that leads to the big corporations taking power, that leads to this competition to lower wages, and that leads to precarious work.
~ Ken Loach
I don't think anything can prepare you for the 'Strictly' experience. It really is insane. I mean, I played football, rugby, American football. I go to the gym. I like to think I'd be quite fit, and I don't have much fat on me to lose, and yet I still lost a stone and half and three inches off my waist.
~ Ricky Whittle
I want to become undisputed UFC welterweight champion. I've been so close a couple of times, but I don't want to leave the sport always a bridesmaid and never a bride. I want to get that belt around my waist.
~ Carlos Condit
Something inside of me just said 'Hey, wait a minute, I want to beat him,' and I just took off.
~ Steve Prefontaine
The things that come to those that wait may be the things left by those that got there first.
~ Steven Tyler
If you're the Olympic champion then they have to wait four more years to get you again.
~ Usain Bolt
I do have a tendency to talk a lot at the poker table, which throws people off because they spend a lot of time trying to read me. But I talk a lot when I have a good hand and when I have a bad hand, too. Sometimes it annoys people so much they can't wait to get out of the tournament. And that can only be good for me.
~ Cheryl Hines
In my whole career, I've never seen this type of race that you had to wait for the last day. There's so many teams that are involved. You've got to smile because we're in it.
~ David Wells