Quotes About Competition

Les gagnants ne font qu'aider les autres à gagner, et les perdants ne font que faire tomber les autres.

Even though I know I'm not going to win, competing is more fun than sitting at home complaining.

The only trump card I have to beat is the bluff."

Men want a challenge, but they want a challenge they can win.

It's fun to win, sure, but if you only have fun when you win, you completely lose the joy of just playing a game, and being part of a team that works together. You're not going to win every game you play, so if winning is the only way you have fun, you're going to have a bad time pretty often.

Play the game without mercy, play to win

It is normally easy and actually quite pleasant to walk and think at the same time, but at the extremes these activities appear to compete for the limited resources of System 2. You can confirm this claim by a simple experiment. While walking comfortably with a friend, ask him to compute 23 × 78 in his head, and to do so immediately. He will almost certainly stop in his tracks.

there are periods in which competition, among experts and among organizations, creates powerful forces that favor a collective blindness to risk and uncertainty.

probably contributes to an explanation of why people litigate, why they start wars, and why they open small businesses.

In the competition with the inside view, the outside view doesn't stand a chance.

Organizations face the challenge of controlling the tendency of executives competing for resources to present overly optimistic plans. A well-run organization will reward planners for precise execution and penalize them for failing to anticipate difficulties, and for failing to allow for difficulties that they could not have anticipated—the unknown unknowns.

Even when they are not sure they will succeed, these bold people think their fate is almost entirely in their own hands. They are surely wrong: the outcome of a start-up depends as much on the achievements of its competitors and on changes in the market as on its own efforts.

A basic rule of fairness, we found, is that the exploitation of market power to impose losses on others is unacceptable. The

A world in which firms compete by offering better products is preferable to one in which the winner is the firm that is best at obfuscation.

you win a few, you lose a few.

Variability in judgments is also expected and welcome in a competitive situation in which the best judgments will be rewarded.

Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built.

All of this is to buy the loyalty of the thumb-suckers, whiners, and social experimenters who refuse to produce, refuse to compete, and reject any notion of personal accountability.

At the Beaux-Arts he was that most admired of students, "a second-place man." First place in academic competitions belonged to the highly capable and absolutely conventional; the truly brilliant, whose innovative work made the masters at the Ecole uneasy, learned to be content with second.

A]ny species that exempts itself from the rules of competition ends up destroying the community in order to support its own expansion.

They really were insufferable, she thought, these pampered millennial snowflakes with their yoga mats and their designer leggings and their contempt for concepts such as hard work and competition. She only wished she'd brought along a packet of L&Bs. One whiff of smoke would have sent them scurrying.

Yawning was linked to stress. Athletes yawned before competition, paratroopers before a drop. Part of the flight or fight, linked to the hypothalamus.

What is play to the cat is death to the mouse.

I'm a big sports fan. Football. Cricket.