Quotes About Competition

Few people...have had much training in listening. The training of most oververbalized professional intellectuals is in the opposite direction. Living in a competitive culture, most of us are most of the time chiefly concerned with getting our own views across, and we tend to find other people's speeches a tedious interruption of the flow of our own ideas.

Two years after Duveen died, Kress bought all the pictures that had been hanging fire. Duveen went right on selling.

Beating Pakistan is always special because they are a tough team and we have a bit if a history regarding Pakistan.

Wasim and Waqar were amazing bowlers. I would put them right up there with the best in the world.

But eventually it is a game of cricket.

All I had done was to improve on their strategy, and it was the beginning of a very important lesson in life - that anytime you find someone more successful than you are, especially when you're both engaged in the same business - you know they're doing something that you aren't.

All I had was to improve on their strategy [...] anytime you find someone more successful than you are, especially when you're both engaged in the same business—you know they're doing something that you aren't.

Anytime you see someone more succesful than you are, the are doing something you aren't

All I had done was to improve on their strategy, and it was the beginning of a very important lesson in life—that anytime you find someone more successful than you are, especially when you're both engaged in the same business—you know they're doing something that you aren't.

When you become an animal, a vulture, in the ghetto, as I had become, you enter a world of animals and vultures. It becomes truly the survival of only the fittest.

Los escritores contemporáneos no se leen los unos a los otros, sino que se vigilan.

Pork chop, pork chop, Greazy, greazy, We'ze gonna beat you, Easy, easy. Corn bread, Jeri Curl, Bar-bee-cue, We'ze gonna beat the whoopy outta you!

There is a Japanese belief that business is temporal, whereas relationships are eternal. That's true. One day you compete. The next day you partner. One day someone is your subordinate; the next day he or she may be your superior. At its finest, business is friendly competition, just like a game of tennis. As

D]ie meisten Schriftsteller sind in einer Krise oder haben gerade eine Krise überwunden oder befürchten eine Krise. Daher genießen sie die Krise eines Kollegen beinahe wollüstig.

I took heart seeing that it was possible to stay modest and low-key and still do the work you wanted to do, that being competitive might actually muddy or even obliterate your own vision because you were so busy comparing, looking over your shoulder.

They contemn one another, and yet they seek to please one another: and whilest they seek to surpass one another in worldly pomp and greatness, they most debase and prostitute themselves in their better part one to another.

Men despise one another and flatter one another; and men wish to raise themselves above one another, and crouch before one another.

Si disprezzano e tuttavia fanno a gara nell'adularsi a vicenda, e così vanno avanti a forza di inchini.

When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.

A man is just a woman's strategy for making other women.

Whoever cares the most will lose.

Human beings- I've observed- are hot-wired for score keeping, and since they like to win, they're always going one better than the other fellow.

A man is just a woman's strategy for making other women.

It is my opinion that they sometimes take what is intended for us, which would not surprise me in the least, as it is dog eat dog around here and they are the bigger dogs.