Quotes About Competition

The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together.

It's hard to win in the NFL. You have to maintain a very delicate balance putting together the right team to be able to win and have any amount of success.

I love the NBA playoffs. It's just a great mental test for each team. When it's really close, usually one team pulls together, and the other team comes apart.

Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering competitiveness.

I want to see the two CEOs of RIM and (Apple CEO Steve) Jobs working together. The thought of this menage a trois is absolutely hilarious.

We found out that no matter how good you are you can't go out there and compete against teams that have been together for quite some time.

And who did you think I was, Diana Ingram? You were my fantasy lover, she said. And I realize with every ounce of foresight in my body that I will be teased about this for the rest of my life. By me? he said, looking down at her, one eyebrow raised. Me tease the woman I love? You malign me, Diana. I have one question, though. How do I compare with my competition?

It was politicians saying, "Let's you and him fight!

The trick is not to care. I have a perfect indifference to winning.

A pool game mixes ritual with geometry.

Height - ours and our boyfriends - is a running contest between Lecia and me. If I tell her good news about myself, she's liable to say 'I'm five-nine' and hang up.

Her mother's injunction on competing with other girls is a challenge, a gauntlet thrown down: You just have to be smarter than the ones who are prettier and prettier than the ones who are smarter

So it's not enough for me to be as good as a man. I gotta be better than them. And I gotta prove it. Every. Damned. Day

For athletes, the Olympics are the ultimate test of their worth.

There can be distractions, but if you're isolated from the heart of the Games, the Olympics become just another competition.

moving!" A huge roar came from the crowd. The players

Well.. Is that all you've got?.. I hope not..cuz you haven't finished entertaining me yet.. -Gaara to Rock Lee during the Chunin preliminary

Our children can play together…while my boy kills yours.

2011, human-rights activists estimated that fully 15 percent of the Russian prison population was made up of entrepreneurs who had been thrown behind bars by well-connected competitors who used the court system

To be enjoyable, an AI must put up a good fight but lose more often than win. It must make the player feel clever, sly, cunning, and powerful. It must make the player jump from his seat shouting, "Take that, you little shit!

I don't have to," replies the philosopher. "I only have to outrun you.")

The struggle for existence never gets easier. However well a species may adapt to its environment, it can never relax, because its competitors and its enemies are also adapting to their niches. Survival is a zero-sum game.

The big firms that survive will do so by turning themselves into bottom-up evolvers.

Most of the so-called robber barons got rich by cutting the price of goods, not raising them.