Quotes About Competition

This tended to increase the size of societies because contests of violence more often than not were won by the larger group.

The theory of "free banking," as it is called, is not merely a hypothetical academic speculation. Private competing currencies circulated in Scotland from early in the eighteenth century until 1844. During that period, Scotland had no central bank. There were few

In almost every competitive area, including most of the world's multitrillion-dollar investment activity, the migration of transactions into cyberspace will be driven by an almost hydraulic pressure—the impetus to avoid predatory taxation, including the tax that inflation places upon everyone who holds his wealth in a national currency.

Final Candidate—

Racing is the only time I feel whole.

it helpful to think that what evolves are the niches, and organisms negotiate for their occupancy.

Peel finally decided to interrupt the endless stream of complaints and grievances and call Babbage to order with a hard fact: 'Mr Babbage, by your own admission you have rendered the Difference Engine useless by inventing a better machine.' Babbage took the bait and glared at Peel. 'But if I finish the Difference Engine it will do even more than I promised. It is true that it has been superseded by better machinery, but it is very far from being "useless.

In personal relationships, the false self promises to defend against the intimacy that could lead to engulfment or the pains of abandonment by substituting fantasy relationships with unavailable partners for real relationships. On the job, the false self assures the person that he can avoid the conflicts and anxiety that would come from honest self-assertion with authority figures and peers, competition, and discipline by not working up to his full capacity or ability.

The advanced societies of the future will not be governed by reason. They will be driven by irrationality, by competing systems of psychopathology.

Sometimes in the company of others I find a disagreeable spirit of competitiveness kicks in and each person is shamed into spending rather more than he would have wished. This is a historically established syndrome, of course. One Magus going to Bethlehem would probably have sprung for a box of After Eights. Three Magi on the same trip found themselves laden with gold, frankincense and myrrh and bitterly comtemplating their overdrafts.

I like a women who's got some balls, some strength. As long as I can beat her at arm wrestling, that's fine.

You don't compete against products and services in your category: you compete against anything that gets the job done from the user's point of view.

Pass the Ball Enlightened leaders deliberately hand over responsibility in order to create engaged team-players able to adapt their approach to suit the conditions. 'Command & Control' in a VUCA world is unwieldy and increasingly uncompetitive.

Darwin had said the fittest survived, and the Social Darwinists completed the circle. The best way to demonstrate fitness to survive was to dominate one's fellows;

If it hadn't been for the Cold War, neither Russia nor America would have been sending people into space.

The oil companies regard nuclear power as their rival, who will reduce their profits, so they put out a lot of disinformation about nuclear power.

For all that sentients have achieved with weapons and machines, life remains an ongoing battle for survival, with the strong or the smart at the top of the heap, and the rest kept in check by firepower and laws.

What a polite game tennis is. The chief word in it seems to be "sorry" and admiration of each other's play crosses the net as frequently as the ball.

Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.

the industry," the deal had become both more important and more entertaining than the product, and the biggest and best deals involved studios, not movies

The invention of basketball was not an accident. It was developed to meet a need. Those boys simply would not play "Drop the Handkerchief."

I am sure that no man can derive more pleasure from money or power than I do from seeing a pair of basketball goals in some out of the way place.

Este «autoengaño en las reservas de la compañía conduce casi siempre a unos niveles de tarifación en el sector que no son los apropiados», indica Buffett. «Si los agentes principales del mercado no conocen sus verdaderos costes, los efectos secundarios competitivos afectan a todos, incluso a aquellos que tienen un conocimiento apropiado de cuáles son sus costes».

The dim-witted state is like a chess player who is unaware that the other fellow gets to move after he does.