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Quotes About Competition

He who challenges me, praises me!
~ john barry weber
All stories are about battles, of one kind or another, which end in victory or defeat.
~ John Berger
The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power.
~ John Berger
Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
~ John Berger
I haven't lost a battle yet but I am tensefor the first losing.
~ John Berryman
Listen to Professor Compton, would you? He's a professor and he has a neck beard. You don't so he wins this round.
~ John Birmingham
He didn't understand how this "Microsoft Corporation" could have become so dominant in die andere Zeit. He found their products to be annoying, and entirely unreliable.
~ John Birmingham
Economics graduate students are far more likely to free-ride than other students.
~ John Brockman
American Telephone & Telegraph, the largest company of them all,
~ John Brooks
The one that's really new is the lowest-priced, too!" In the more rarefied sectors of Madison Avenue, a resort to rhymed slogans is usually regarded as an indication of artistic depravity induced by commercial necessity. From
~ John Brooks
They knew all about the automotive casualties that had followed the Second World War—among them Crosley, which had given up altogether, and Kaiser Motors, which, though still alive in 1954, was breathing its last.
~ John Brooks
How do you become First in command, when you're second in command? You kill the guy that's first in command!
~ John Bytheway
The Blue Man smiled. "Why not wipe out all life in the great dark beyond? All other life, that is. All the competition. They did not overlook or forget about the Earth! They cleared the fields for her. Then they traveled backward in time to restart the universe with Man on top, right at the initial condition set. Why not?
~ John C. Wright
We're competing with everything: the beach, the mall, bookstores. Libraries are in a transition right now, caught between two forces, the old ways and technology. Libraries are under a lot of pressure to provide both.
~ John Callahan
The denominational world tries to pressure its members to focus on the birth of Christ, but in doing so layers of guilt are imposed, and competition gets complicated as one Christmas program tries to outdo the other.
~ John Clayton
Evil, unlike good, is constantly at war with those most like itself, and ambition is its spur.
~ John Connolly
Below the surface of the most civilised human beings, the hunger-lust darts and snaps like a fish, snatches and rends like a bird, growls like a wolf, snarls like a panther, buzzes like a hornet, bleats like a sheep and stamps like a bull; and there is nothing so aggravating to hungry stomachs as the sight of dirty plates pushed away from satisfied rival stomachs.
~ John Cowper Powys
In anguish we upliftA new unhallowed song:The race is to the swift;The battle to the strong.
~ John Davidson
Dalton regarded his chess opponent, from whom the outburst had come. "What on earth has got into you?" Lord Peter sat back, a triumphant smirk on his lips. "I moved!" "Well, congratulations. What did you move?" "Bishop to
~ John DeChancie
They will not let my play run, and yet they steal my thunder!
~ John Dennis
So many Americans felt that their neighbor had no right to know more than they did.
~ John Dos Passos
Carrington got generally higher marks from critics than most of her daytime competition. Though Rosemary was cited for its "realistic approach to life," such devices as amnesia (in fact a rare malady that seemed to infect soap opera characters almost weekly) gave it the breathless "tune in tomorrow" edge they all had.
~ John Dunning
Business is a fight, a continual struggle, just as life is
~ Elbert Hubbard
I found out early in life that I could hit a baseball farther than most players and that's what I tried to do.
~ Harmon Killebrew