Quotes About Competition

Brodsky couldn't accept the notion that an industry, any industry, was closed to new competition. He realized that if he was going to get anywhere in records storage, he would have to come up with an approach to the business different from that of the established records-storage providers. That meant using his peripheral vision, looking at the business this way and that until he saw something that everybody else was missing.

It's all these different capitalists, in far-flung parts of the world—and that's all the more so today: in far-flung parts of the world—it's all these capitalists in competition with each other, forcing each other to find ways to more efficiently produce, and more effectively exploit people, even if that means throwing a bunch of people out of work, or off the land, or whatever.

I've heard you say many times That you're better 'n no one And no one is better 'n you If you really believe that You know you got Nothing to win and nothing to lose

What vulnerabilities do we have and what can we do to minimize them, to get around them, to survive them—and give ourselves a better chance to win?

But got to fight until only one side is standing. Otherwise

The only competition you will ever face is with your own ignorance.

Cohn concluded that Trump just loved to pit people against each other.

You're running against the most joyless candidate in presidential history.

He puts natural predators at the table," Priebus said later. "Not just rivals—predators.

Trump just loved to pit people against each other.

when you put a snake and a rat and a falcon and a rabbit and a shark and a seal in a zoo without walls, things start getting nasty and bloody. That's what happens.

Cohn offered one more argument against steel tariffs. We're not a steel-producing nation. We're a good-producing nation. If we increase the price of steel, out goods become overprices and we can't compete

Snyder had scaled the rocky heights of the American political landscape by adhering to a simple mantra: Do unto others before they do unto you.

if you weren't cheating, you weren't trying.

If he needed an answer about how much he'd changed, that provided it. He didn't want Fatima Hynes or any other nameless female with vacant eyes and an ample bosom. He didn't want anyone else, ever. He wanted Evelyn Marie Ruddick—and he'd be damned if he was going to let Neckcloth Alvington have her without a fight. And if there was one thing he knew how to do better than anyone else in London, it was how to fight dirty

The empire of cotton has continued to facilitate a giant race to the bottom, limited only by the spatial constraints of the planet.

Hollywood is the only place where you can die from encouragement." Dorothy Parker

Para Dickens y Marx, la función de las empresas era controlar o explotar al trabajador. Para Mill, su función era enriquecer a los dueños. Para Marshall, la empresa no era una cárcel, y dirigir una empresa no significaba controlar a los presos. Competir por los clientes (o los trabajadores) exigía algo más que repetición ciega. Las empresas estudiadas por Marshall habían tenido que evolucionar para sobrevivir.

At this rate, I'd be lucky if I wrote a page a day. Then I knew what the problem was. I needed experience. How could I write about life when I'd never had a love affair or a baby or even seen anybody die? A girl I knew had just won a prize for a short story about her adventures among the pygmies in Africa. How could I compete with that sort of thing?

No day is safe from news of you. --from The Rival, written July 1961

I felt now that all the uncomfortable suspicions I had about myself were coming true, and I couldn't hide the truth much longer. After nineteen years of running after good marks and prizes and grants of one sort and another, I was letting up, slowing down, dropping clean out of the race.

After nineteen years of running after good marks and prizes and grants of one sort or another, I was letting up, slowing down, dropping clean out of the race.

I felt very low. I had been unmasked only that morning by Jay Cee herself, and I felt now that all the uncomfortable suspicions I had about myself were coming true. After nineteen years of running after good marks and prizes and grants of one sort and another, I was letting up, slowing down, dropping clean out of race.

So you got rid of your astonishment that someone could write so much more dynamically than you. You stopped cherishing your aloneness and poetic differentness to your delicately flat little bosom. You said: she's to good to forget. How about making her a friend and competitor — you could learn alot from her. So you'll try. So maybe she'll laugh in your face. So maybe she'll beat you hollow in the end. So anyhow, you'll try, and maybe, possibly, she can stand you. Here's hoping!