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Quotes About Competition

Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You'll never get out of the jungle that way.
~ Arthur Miller
Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Qué español suena eso, ¿verdad?… Si no ganas tú, al menos procura que no gane el otro. Que todos pierdan.
~ Arturo Pérez-Reverte
My drinking team has a curling problem.
~ As seen on a shirt
Before the Civil War, the northern industrial economy was largely dependent on southern cotton. The slave economy of the South was a threat to northern capitalism. What if the slaveholders of the South decided to set up factories and process the cotton themselves? Northern capitalists could not possibly compete with slave labor, and their capitalist economy would be destroyed. To ensure that this didn't happen, the North went to war.
~ Assata Shakur
Success in investing comes not from being right but from being wrong less often than everyone else.
~ Aswath Damodaran
Business is a good game - lots of competition and a minimum of rules. You keep score with money.
~ Atari founder Nolan Bushnell
We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to supply himself with jokes and comedy material to compete with the machine. Whether he knows it or not, the comedian is on a treadmill to oblivion.
~ attributed
Black women are programmed to define ourselves within this male attention and to compete with each other for it rather than to recognize and move upon our common interests.
~ Audre Lorde
Weeds eat seeds they don't produce
~ Author Unknown
Sport must be amateur or it is not sport. Sports played professionally are entertainment.
~ Avery Brundage
The Olympic Games must not be an end in itself, they must be a means of creating a vast programme of physical education and sports competitions for all young people.
~ Avery Brundage
I write the vocals last, because I wanted to invent the music first and push the music to the level that I had to compete against it.
~ Axl Rose
The pope also knows that wherever radical Islamists become a majority they oppress other faiths. In Muslim countries there is no equal competition for souls, hearts, and minds, because atheists and missionaries and communities of Christians are forced to operate in an atmosphere of physical menace. And although there are plenty of mosques in Rome, not a single church is permitted in Riyadh.
~ Ayaan Hirsi Ali
When you are fitted in a racing car and you race to win, second or third place is not enough.
~ Ayrton Senna
I was already on pole, then by half a second and then one second and I just kept going. Suddenly I was nearly two seconds faster than anybody else, including my team mate with the same car.
~ Ayrton Senna
I am not designed to come second or third, I am designed to win.
~ Ayrton Senna
You either commit yourself as a professional racing driver that's designed to win races or you come second or you come third or fifth and am not design to come third, fourth or fifth, I race to win.
~ Ayrton Senna
Being second is to be the first of the ones who lose.
~ Ayrton Senna
By being a racing driver you are under risk all the time. By being a racing driver means you are racing with other people. And if you no longer go for a gap that exists, you are no longer a racing driver because we are competing, we are competing to win.
~ Ayrton Senna
People can cooperate, compete peacefully, or use violence to achieve their objectives, depending on what they believe will serve them best in any given circumstance.
~ Azar Gat
Still, connecting others to the world economy -voluntarily, by pressure, and even by force- constituted, in principle, their only road to sustained real growth and away from the material deprivation, stagnation, zero-sum competition, and high mortality of 'agraria'.
~ Azar Gat
İnsanlar kendi kaderlerine yüzüstü b?rak?ld?ktan, çoÄŸunluk mutsuz, tesadüflerin elinde oyuncak yap?ld?ktan sonra, onlara "özgürce rekabet ederek geliÅŸebilirsiniz!" demek, sömürenlerin, ezilen insanlara oynad??? bir oyundur.
~ aziz nesin
If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
~ B. C. Forbes