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Quotes About Competition

there is little reason to think that interest group pressure is invariably benign, where a concentrated rich group (e.g., an industry association) competes against a dispersed and poorly organized group (e.g., consumers).
~ F.H. Buckley
a man cannot win if he's at the same time a horse and a jockey.
~ F.X. Toole
It looked to me like a vamp version of a pissing contest. Men will be boys.
~ Faith Hunter
She said that war was about one thing and one thing only. False pride and resources.
~ Faith Hunter
When the world of officialdom skips over the natural process of competition, it leads to disaster; empty talk about political correctness without seeking truth from facts also leads to disaster; prohibiting people from speaking the truth and the media from reporting the truth leads to disaster; and now we are tasting the fruits of these disasters, one by one.
~ Fang Fang
It's not possible for two countries to be the leading dominant political power at the same time.
~ Fareed Zakaria
The secret to staying competitive is not necessarily in growing your business in the traditional sense, but in using technology to innovate.
~ Fast Company
Serena maintains today that as George grew older he also grew out of his mind. Many men do, in my experience. Life does not come up to their expectations: they grow older, and disappointed. At fifty they realise others have passed them by, made more money, won more respect. Their sexual drive fades and the self-esteem that goes with it. They take to litigation and shake their fists at other drivers.
~ Fay Weldon
To become rich you must be an owner. And you must try to own it all. You must strive with every fibre of your being, while recognising the idiocy of your behaviour, to own and retain control of as near to 100 per cent of any company as you can. If that is not possible, in a public company, for example, then you must be prepared to make yourself hated by those around you who are also trying to be rich. That is the dirty, rotten little secret of it all, my friend.
~ Felix Dennis
Competition is the heart, soul, liver, lungs and kidney of the beast we call Western capitalism.
~ Felix Dennis
My advice on competition is always to ensure that you want to fight, and ought to fight on a larger competitor's ground.
~ Felix Dennis
It is a mature business, and few fortunes are made in mature industries, unless you are lucky enough to create a monopoly in one. I was luckier than I knew. So
~ Felix Dennis
La gente le va a preferir a usted sólo por dos motivos: porque hace algo mejor o porque lo hace igual que los demás pero más barato.
~ Fernando Trías de Bes
Compitiendo las ansias de matar con la furia reproductora. Ganas con ganas a ver cuál puede más.
~ Fernando Vallejo
I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.
~ Fidel Castro
A man's idea in a game of cards is war, cruel, devastating, and pitiless. A lady's idea of it is a combination of larceny, embezzlement and burglary.
~ Finley Peter Dunne
Bracing yourself—always expecting your next race to be your hardest yet—is a much more mature and effective way to prepare mentally for competition.
~ Fitzgerald Matt
Physical fitness determines where the wall that represents your physical limit is placed. Mental fitness determines how close you are able to get to that limit in competition. Mental
~ Fitzgerald Matt
Unlike the Houston Astros hitters, nobody hit the garbage bins for us. We had to react to pitches on skill with no warning and we won."
~ Flavio Volpe
You don't really play poker with your cards up.
~ Flavio Volpe
Once I am in the square circle, I am in my home.
~ Floyd Mayweather Jr.
If, then, it is politic to protect national Labor against the competition of foreign Labor, it is not less so to protect human Labor against the rivalry of mechanical Labor.
~ Frederic Bastiat
When two workmen run after one master, wages fall; they rise when two masters run after one workman.
~ Frederic Bastiat
Tas ir šausm?gi nogurdinoši, ja neesi iem?l?jies - nemit?gi k?ds j?valdzina, bet konkurence ir než?l?ga.
~ Frédéric Beigbeder