Quotes About Competitive

It's no secret that I enjoyed the physical side when I was a player. I was a bumps-and-bruises man.

Every now and then you have to be a little nasty, a little aggressive on the floor. That's part of being a basketball player.

I don't get irrational about it, but I do have a deeply-rooted competitive spirit. Not necessarily towards other people, but towards any obstacle that I set for myself.

A nation which depends upon others for its new basic scientific knowledge will be slow in its industrial progress and weak in its competitive position in world trade.

Despite our policy of candor, we will discuss our activities in marketable securities only to the extent legally required. Good investment ideas are rare, valuable and subject to competitive appropriation just as good product or business acquisition ideas are.

Street hockey is great for kids. It's energetic, competitive, and skillful. And best of all, it keeps them off the streets.

American professional athletes are bilingual — they speak English and profanity.

But people can not move a company toward competitive excellence if they are rewarded for meeting top-down accounting-based targets, not for continuously seeking better ways to satisfy customers, internal and external.

Put Mickelson and Toms out there. You know, they had the morning off. They rested. Knowing them and the competitors that they are, they are probably a little angry that they weren't out there in the morning.

Gross profit margin demonstrates competitive advantage: it is the purest expression of customer valuation of a product, clearly implying the premium buyers assign to a seller for having fashioned raw materials into a finished item and branding it.

p.34: Peter Drucker. La innovación es la competencia central de la empresa moderna competitiva. Tiene que establecerse en el corazón de la organización desde el principio, ALIMENTARSE CONTINUAMENTE CON INVERSIONES Y APOYO EJECUTIVO, y tiene que TRANSFORMARSE SISTEMÁTICAMENTE EN VALOR para la firma.

Living in the city is a discordant thing, an unnatural thing. The city, a place to which one goes to do business, is a place where men overreach each other in the fight for money. But it is not a place in which one can live.

In this business, there is an insane amount of pressure, spoken and unspoken, to be thin. If you look at some of the television shows, eating disorders become like a competitive thing.

President Obama has ignored or dismissed proposals that would address our anti-competitive tax code and unsustainable trajectory of federal debt - including his own bipartisan National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform - and submitted no plan for entitlement reform.

I work with Sally and I can see Sally doing that. She is very aggressive. Very fun loving and charming... and pushy in a very competitive way and a very healthy way and a very good actress.

And still the time, especially in the economy, is very tough, very difficult. It's necessary to be active still, to work, to fight, to make our economy more competitive.

Stoke City gave me the opportunity to play in the most competitive league in the world, and I have only words of gratitude for their trust and for the way they have treated me.

My mom drew a line in the sand and said they would not be putting me on Ritalin. My mom liked my competitive nature, and she stood up for me.

Football is a strange game.

By giving every American access to quality, affordable health care, they will create a more competitive, a stronger and more secure America!

I've always wanted to be on a winning team, be competitive and have something to shoot for in October. It's never been a money situation.

I think you need to be aggressive. That's offensive football.

Low-wage jobs have gone offshore. We need to innovate to stay competitive.

I think people who are compelled to achieve never really think they've achieved... I think the moment you get to a place when you think 'Oh I'm a fashion legend' then that's when you're no longer competitive in your field.