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Quotes About Competition

There are so many women who contributed in a very real way in pushing for the space program during the time in which there was a lot of competition to get into space first, and to know that there were African-American women who were integral in that success is pretty phenomenal.
~ Mahershala Ali
Being a brakeman is very physical, and success is mostly determined by how fast you can push a sled for about 30 meters.
~ Elana Meyers
If success is about winning the league, there will always be 19 disappointed clubs.
~ Roy Hodgson
I think the beauty of Catholicism is its consistency through both successes and difficulties. I've counted on my faith to give me strength through both training and competition - but also in school, with my family and everyday life.
~ Katie Ledecky
Our markets have not achieved their great successes as a result of government fiat, but rather through efforts of competing interests working to meet the demands of investors and to fulfill the promises posed by advancing technology.
~ Arthur Levitt
I'm actually fighting my own benchmarks in a lot of ways. The number of games that I've managed to win for my country and for myself, the number of successes I've had and the excellence I've shown is always measured up in equal parlance when I travel away from the country, which is great.
~ Ravichandran Ashwin
If Google Books is successful, others will follow.
~ Sergey Brin
I started to become internationally successful starting at the age of 9.
~ Judit Polgar
There is always going to be someone more successful, richer, better looking, or with a nicer car.
~ Michael Gerber
Chess was natural for me; I was extremely successful.
~ Garry Kasparov
I was not successful as a ball player, as it was a game of skill.
~ Casey Stengel
The successful companies try to keep the new entrants down. Now that's great for a company like ours. We make more money that way because we have less competition and less innovation. But for the country as a whole, it's horrible.
~ Charles Koch
Innovation is critical to the heartbeat of any successful corporation in the industrialized world.
~ Dinesh Paliwal
Cannibalization is by far the most difficult feat any established, successful company can pull off.
~ Adam Lashinsky
To be successful in business, you have to be ruthless.
~ Burt Reynolds
The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do.
~ Roy L. Smith
It's not people who resent successful people; it's resentful people who resent successful people.
~ Bo Bennett
Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.
~ John McEnroe
When a show becomes successful, people want to hire the people on the show for other things, and we would all try to do other things, but we could never end up doing them, so casting directors were just like, 'Enough of them! Don't touch the 'Glee' kids, because you can't use them!'
~ Kevin McHale
If China stood on an equal basis with other nations, she could compete freely with them in the economic field and be able to hold her own without failure. But as soon as foreign nations use political power as a shield for their economic designs, then China is at a loss how to resist or to compete successfully with them.
~ Sun Yat-sen
Every dollar of tax imposed on our exchanges in the shape of duties impairs, to that extent, our capacity to meet the severe competition to which we are exposed; and nothing but a system of high protective duties, long continued, can prevent us from meeting it successfully. It is that which we have to fear.
~ John C. Calhoun
Striking out Ruth and Gehrig in succession was too big an order.
~ Carl Hubbell
There's loads of succession stories to draw on.
~ Jesse Armstrong
I believe that the Premier League is the best league in the world, and having played in the Premier League for such a long time, it is to my advantage, and I know what to expect.
~ Petr Cech