Quotes with competition

  • Nobody talks more of free enterprise and competition and of the best man winning than the man who inherited his father's store or farm.
  • As a rule, I try to avoid the French Quarter because of the crowds, especially Bourbon Street. But hey, some people love it. A great, wild, adult thing to see is the costume competition in front of the bar Oz on Bourbon early morning on Fat Tuesday.
  • And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.
  • Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress.
  • In 1982 when I showed up, the average age of the drivers in the series was something like 40, 41. The crowds were small. There was not much prize money. The competition wasn't very tight.
  • We call it a Society; and go about professing openly the totalest separation, isolation. Our life is not a mutual helpfulness; but rather, cloaked under due laws-of-war, named ''fair competition'' and so forth, it is a mutual hostility.
  • When you look at a company that's already succeeded or is at the very top of its game, it isn't necessarily when it's executing well. It tends to be peacetime - you've defeated the competition, you have the highest margins, the highest multiple.
  • In Britain, because I live here, I can also run into problems of envy and competition. But all this is just in a day's work for a writer. You can't put stuff out there without someone calling you a complete fool. Oh, well.
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  • Bertrand Russell Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Barack Obama America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Bart Starr Athletic competition clearly defines the unique power of our attitude.
    Bart Starr
    American football quarterback and coach (1934 - )
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  • Alfred P. Sloan Competition is the final price determinant and competitive prices may result in profits which force you to accept a rate of return less than you hoped for, or for that matter to accept temporary losses.
    Alfred P. Sloan
    American businessman (1875 - 1966)
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  • Bruce Lipton There's a theory that says that life is based on a competition and the struggle and the fight for survival, and it's interesting because when you look at the fractal character of evolution, it's totally different. It's based on cooperation among the elements in the geometry and not competition.
    Bruce Lipton
    American developmental biologist (1944 - )
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  • Blanka Vlasic A good career is a long-lasting career. When you're there in every competition doing a good job you're a part of an elite, and that's the most important thing.
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  • Marquis de Sade All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost - the most legitimate - passion nature has bred into us and, without doubt, the most agreeable one.
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • Bipasha Basu An unforgettable experience happened on December 15, 1996 when I won the Supermodel contest while still in school. I was just seventeen years old then. Winning that competition was the turning point of my life. That's how I got into modeling and later started acting.
    Bipasha Basu
    Indian film actress and model (1979 - )
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  • Andrew Carnegie And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.
    Andrew Carnegie
    American industrialist (1835 - 1919)
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  • Bryan Batt As a rule, I try to avoid the French Quarter because of the crowds, especially Bourbon Street. But hey, some people love it. A great, wild, adult thing to see is the costume competition in front of the bar Oz on Bourbon early morning on Fat Tuesday.
    Bryan Batt
    American actor (1963 - )
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  • Benjamin Watson Before competition, as I stand in shoulder pads and cleats, my helmet in my left hand, adrenaline flowing and my heart raging under my right, I never forget the ills of America, but for a moment I envision its potential, remember its prosperity, and give thanks to God for the land He has placed me in and the people I love who live in it.
    Benjamin Watson
    American football player (1980 - )
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  • Bill Flores By fostering competition, leveling the playing field, and increasing transparency, we can bring America's health care sector into the 21st century.
    Bill Flores
    American businessman and politician (1954 - )
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  • Willard Beecher Competition is a process or variety of habitual behavior that grows out of a habit of mind.
    Willard Beecher
     
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  • John D. Rockefeller Competition is a sin.
    John D. Rockefeller
    American industrialist: founder Exxon (1839 - 1937)
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  • Herbert Hoover Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress.
    Herbert Hoover
    American engineer, businessman and politician (1874 - 1964)
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  • Henry Ford Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.
    Henry Ford
    American industrialist (1863 - 1947)
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  • George Leonard Competition is the spice of sports; but if you make spice the whole meal you'll be sick.
    George Leonard
     
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  • Elbert Hubbard Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed - there's so little competition.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Bradley A. Smith Elections are a competition with only one winner. Giving more money to the opponent every time one speaks on behalf of a favored candidate discourages the speech that triggers the matching funds.
    Bradley A. Smith
    American law professor (1958 - )
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  • Bonnie Blair Even though I enjoy that head-to-head competition part, one of the things that drove me to long track was if I won or if I lost I want to know it's all on my shoulders and it didn't have anything to do with anybody else.
    Bonnie Blair
    American athlete and speed skater (1964 - )
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