Quotes About Competition

I was never very interested in boys - and there were plenty of them - vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay.

I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn't dare to make an enemy should get out of the business.

Brisbane Versus Becker

All of life is a contest. The weak against the strong - the stupid against the clever - the honest against the dishonest.

The long term approach is rare enough that it means you're not competing against very many companies. 'Cause most companies wanna see a return on investment in, you know, one, two, three years.

There are two kinds of companies: those that try to charge more and those that work to charge less. We will be the second.

If you're competitor-focused, you have to wait until there is a competitor doing something. Being customer-focused allows you to be more pioneering.

Your margin is my opportunity.

One of the main sources of mental corruption in this country is the ghost of Vince Lombardi: don't matter how you play the game, don't matter if you enjoy the game, don't matter if the game means anything, the important thing is TO WIN. I think that's as good a definition of mental illness as you're ever gonna get.

What is man's greatest bane? His brother man alone.

I doubled back to school and overheard Mrs. Andersen in the classroom talking to another teacher. "Can you believe it?" she was saying. "A foreigner winning our spelling bee!

When you are not practicing, remember, someone somewhere is practicing, and when you meet him he will win.

talented but only a 6 or 7 out of 10, and we both know that the world only gives golden medals to the 9's and 10's

The serve was invented so that the net could play.

As I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child. Coincidentally, so did my brother. My mother did not put all her eggs in one basket, so to speak she gave me a younger brother named Russel, who taught me what was meant by survival of the fittest.

One of the great mistakes that can be made by a man of my age is to get involved in athletic competition with children--unless, of course, they are under six. And even then, stay away from hide-and-seek.

If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1 000 MPG.

If you're using first-class land for biofuels, then you're competing with the growing of food. And so you're actually spiking food prices by moving energy production into agriculture.

Microsoft looks at new ideas, they don't evaluate whether the idea will move the industry forward, they ask, 'how will it help us sell more copies of Windows?

Well, Steve [Jobs]… I think it's more like we both had this rich neighbour named Xerox and I broke into his house to steal the TV set and found out that you had already stolen it.

You may have heard the old saying that "the definition of insanity is doing the same things over and over again and expecting a different result." In marketing, we could say something very similar: the definition of insanity is doing the same things as your competitors and expecting to beat them.

I never got along with my dad. Kids used to come up to me and say, "My dad can beat up your dad." I'd say Yeah? When?

I would never encourage my children to be athletes - first because my children are not athletes and second because there are so many people pushing to get to the top in sports that 100 people are crushed for each one who breaks through. This is unfortunate.

The biggest, toughest competition in the future will be the battle for your time and attention. Your one thing — your call to adventure — is your best tool in that battle.