Quotes About Rivalry

The committees encouraged rivalry among local units by circulating performance figures and encouraging them to compete for records and prizes.

This feud, rife with intrigue and lacerating polemics, was to take on an almost pathological intensity.

It is almost inconceivable that he did not suspect at moments that Archbold had learned some of his tricks from Senior.

Rockefeller now left Andrew Carnegie far behind and probably had at least twice as much money as Carnegie did.

Recoiling at what he saw as the Clark brothers' pomposity, he eventually grew as censorious of them as he had been of George Gardner.

61 Pierpont's fortune didn't approach those of the great industrialists—Carnegie, Rockefeller, Ford, or Harriman—and he didn't quite edge out Jay Gould.

Rockefeller never passed up a chance to exploit a legitimate advantage against his beleaguered rivals.

The two sides projected competing nightmares of what would happen if the other side prevailed.

the three increasingly clash as they sell competing services.

Delenda est Carthago: Carthage must be destroyed and obliterated.

William's imprudent decision figured importantly in the enormous disparity in wealth that developed between the two brothers.

would mark the start of periodic warfare between

With finely honed political instincts, George Clinton saw that Hamilton was overreaching, and he secretly aided King's candidacy in order to drive a wedge between the Schuylers and the Livingstons. When New York picked its second senator on July 16, 1789, Rufus King came out on top. Just as Clinton suspected, Chancellor Robert R. Livingston was irate and gradually moved into the governor's camp.

Where Junius had accommodated the Rothschilds, Pierpont defied them, secretly demanding a higher commission on the issue

We both sat there mute, as if we were in a no-talking competition and serious about winning. I

Some kind of internecine conflict, over the spoils.

I don't suppose there'll be a tree left standing, for ever so far around, by the time we're finished.'" Tweedledum to tweedledee [They are fighting over a rattle]. Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, p. 156

What happened to the winner Adina asked. She tripped. And the first runner-up? Miss Michigan cracked her knuckles. She tripped, too.

You didn't think I'd let the backstabbing little hussy get away with it, did you? Not that I don't love Jenni, but she's the baby of the family, and she thinks she should get anything and everything she wants. Occasionally she has to be shown differently.

The real problem is that the way that power is given out in our society pits us against each other.

The rivalry is huge between South Carolina and Clemson. It's major bragging rights; one of the most intense things I've been a part of.

If somebody says I am better than Roger, I think this person doesn't know anything about tennis.

But in the end it's still a game of golf, and if at the end of the day you can't shake hands with your opponents and still be friends, then you've missed the point.

Alabama fans love Alabama football. Auburn fans love Auburn.