Quotes About Competition

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I like the race, rather than the winning. Do you really? Yes, I've imagined great victories, and I've imagined great races. The races are better.

A cat can outrace the best thoroughbred horse if only it can grasp the idea of racing.

I've imagined great victories, and I've imagined great races. The races are better.

Toward the end of the first century A.D., a Confucian government minister had them once more abolished, declaring, "Government sale of salt means competing with subjects for profit. These are not measures fit for wise rulers.

At the root of desperate poverty, human trafficking, political violence and global inequity is a sense of scarcity and competition fueled by greed—the inordinate desire to possess wealth, goods or objects of abstract value far beyond the dictates of basic survival or comfort.

After level of skills, it's how sensitive you are to criticism and perceived insult — and how well you can give it right back — that determines your place in the food chain.

Todos nós estávamos a fazer inimigos entre muitos restauradores à medida que subornávamos, implorávamos, aliciávamos e induzíamos as pessoas a largar tudo e vir trabalhar para nós imediatamente.

Não sou nenhum atirador ressentido, pronto para deitar abaixo os meus pares mais bem-sucedidos (embora esteja pronto para isso, quando a oportunidade se apresentar). Habitualmente sou o tipo que eles chamam para um acontecimento famoso, quando o primeiro chefe mostrou ser um psicopata, ou então um bêbado, bera e megalómano.

That was a good straightforward point of view, no pretence that games were anything but an outlet for power and aggression; no stuff about their being enjoyable as such. You played a game to demonstrate that you did it better than someone else. If it came to that, I thought how few people do anything for its own sake, from making love to practising the arts.

We have learned that nobody beats the market (except for a handful of "unicorns")! And by using low-cost market-mimicking index funds, we can outperform 96% of mutual funds and nearly as many hedge funds.

There's no first place or last place here. Life is not a competition. Often people use money and the acquisition of things to measure where they stand: who's got the nicer house, the fancier car, the summer home in the Hamptons. But the truth is, we can't predict how long we'll live or the state of our health as we age. The reality is, it doesn't matter where we start. It's how we finish that counts.

You can be winning and feel like you're losing if you don't keep score.

You have to learn the rules of the game, and then you have to play better than anyone else. —ALBERT EINSTEIN

The rising in life of our familiar friends is, perhaps, the bitterest morsel of the bitter bread which we are called upon to eat in life.

A man desires to win a virgin heart, and is happy to know, - or at least to believe, -that he has won it. With a woman every former rival is an added victim to the wheels of the triumphant chariot in which she is sitting.

All is fair in love and war; and if this is not love, it was the usual thing that stands as a counterpart for it.

The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician's life. And by practice this becomes extended to so many branches, that the delights, — and also the disappointments, — are very widespread

Mr. Low, having not unnaturally been jealous that a young whipper-snapper of a pupil

And war is wonderful, isn't it? For it's war, isn't it, that the Americans have been preparing for and are preparing for this way step by step. In order to defend this senseless manufacture from all competition that could not fail to arise on all sides.

I saw in myself a leader who was so sure of the brilliance of his own ideas that he couldn't allow brilliance in anyone else's; a leader who felt he was so 'enlightened' that he needed to see workers negatively in order to prove his enlightenment; a leader so driven to be the best that he made sure no one else could be as good as he was.

It's the fastest who gets paid, and it's the fastest who gets laid.

Inequality is everywhere at the bottom of faction, for in general faction arises from men's striving for what is equal.

At the Olympic Games, it isn't the most beautiful or strongest who are crowned, but those who compete.