Quotes About Competition

But investing isn't about beating others at their game. It's about controlling yourself at your own game.

School is pure psycology warfare.

When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.

I never remember politics being quite as unpleasant as this before; but maybe this is what life is like at the top.

Jeff is the annoying kind of Scrabble player who plays a lot of obscure two-letter words that shouldn't count but for whatever reason are considered legitimate. My father is the annoying kind of Scrabble player who takes hours with his turn and then plays deliberately misspelled words that no one has the heart to call him out on. I am the perfect Scrabble player, both serious and considerate. Obviously I lost by a lot.

As the flagrant foul's official mascot, Anthony Mason had the genteel refinement of an intentional elbow to the eye socket.

Many economists are great believers in the idea that everything in nature is competitive and that we should set up a society which is competitive to reflect that. Anyone who cannot keep up, well, too bad.

I always have a book that I write during competition. I need it with me, just to read back and reflect and look forward. If I'm feeling anxious, it helps me.

I do make some conscious efforts to write female friendships, intergenerational female friendships. I make a conscious effort to include things that I see as important real parts of my life that are not reflected as much as I think they should be in popular culture. We very seldom have the opportunity to see women compete and remain friends.

A leadership competition is not an ideal context for honest reflection. The aim is, after all, to win, not to learn and build.

It's correct that I wanted health reform to do more to create choices and promote competition.

We humans are really good at forming groups to compete, and then dissolving the groups and reforming them along different lines to compete in a different way.

It's so refreshing when I walk in and see a bunch of Asian actresses all competing for the same role because it makes me feel like I have a genuine shot.

What mattered about Alan Kurdi's photograph was that it made Canadians very angry, and the Conservatives, Liberals and New Democrats ended up competing with each other over which party was offering the most generous refugee policy.

The promotions put fighters against each other, and they don't want to pay anything to them. If you refuse to fight, the promoter shows up - and sometimes he wants to show off more than the fighters. This is a shame.

My philosophy is to make an offer that the other guy can't refuse, because he thinks there's no way he can't win.

Pager companies are very much looking to provide new services to help them regain some of their customer base.

My main point in this regard was to compete for my country and my people and to receive the support of the entire Cuban society, to carry my flag in whatever competition I was in, the Olympic Games, Pan-American Games.

I feel that the world is increasingly about the bottom line, and not so much about human respect or human dignity. In that regard, people who care about other people will not be in a position to make choices and do things that other people who they're competing against will get to do.

We humans have millions of years of evolutionary baggage that makes us regard competition in a deadly light.

It's difficult for anyone to regard a place in the England starting line-up as their own. There's always someone looking to get ahead of you, and that's how it should be.

You want to play, you don't want to be on the bench, I'm no different to anyone else in that regard.

The Premier League is the best league in the world, and it is very well regarded if you get a chance to play in it.

One of my aims is to be the fastest and regarded as the best fast bowler in the world.