Competition Quotes

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  The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

  As quoted in"Be Free!: Keys to Success and Happiness in Every Aspect of Your Life" by Slavica Bogdanov, (p. 45), October 12, 2012.

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• Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.

  Paul Tournier

  Positive, Sports, Confidence

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• There are only two ways to establish competitive advantage: do things better than others or do them differently.

  Karl Albrecht

  Business, Two, Entrepreneur

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• Life is a competition not with others, but with ourselves. We should seek each day to live stronger, better, truer lives; each day to master some weakness of yesterday; each day to repair a mistake; each day to surpass ourselves.

  David B. Haight

  Life, Mistake, Yesterday

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• Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Teamwork, Collaboration, Today

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  A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.

  Ovid

  Motivational, Running, Horse

  Ovid (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ovid (Illustrated)”, p.343, Delphi Classics

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• I'm not in competition with anybody but myself. My goal is to beat my last performance.

  Celine Dion

  Business, Goal, Lasts

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• A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

  Ayn Rand

  Motivational, Dance, Teamwork

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.99, Penguin

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• Like it or not, life is a series of competitions.

  Harvey Mackay

  Life Is, Series

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• A merchant who approaches business with the idea of serving the public well has nothing to fear from the competition.

  James Cash Penney

  Ideas, Wells, Approach

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• You'll never learn a thing from a competitor weaker than you.

  Harvey Mackay

  Competitors

  Harvey Mackay (2011). “The Mackay MBA of Selling in the Real World”, Penguin

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• With competition everyone has to try harder.

  Harold H. Greene

  Trying, Harder

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• A competitor will find a way to win. Competitors take bad breaks and use them to drive themselves just that much harder. Quitters take bad breaks and use them as reasons to give up. It's all a matter of pride.

  Nancy Lopez

  Giving Up, Pride, Winning

  Nancy Lopez (2000). “The Complete Golfer”, Galahad Books

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• My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.

  Indira Gandhi

  Funny, Success, Leadership

  "Taking Charge : Every Woman's Action Guide to Personal, Political and Professional Success". Book by Joan Steinau Lester )p. 76), 1996.

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• I didn't want to become an actress because the competition with my mother would have been to much to live up to.

  Isabella Rossellini

  Mother, Want, Actresses

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  The person who figures out how to harness the collective genius of his or her organization is going to blow the competition away.

  Walter Wriston

  Business, Blow, Organization

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  What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Inspirational, Life, Basketball

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1959). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1958”, p.135, Best Books on

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• Competition is great. And as long as it's friendly and not a malicious thing, then I think it's cool.

  Janet Jackson

  Thinking, Long, Friendly

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• Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

  Daniel Burrus

  Sports, Focus, Mediocrity

  "How Technology Is Transforming the Wine Industry" by Daniel Burrus, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 9, 2016.

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• Of all human powers operating on the affairs of mankind, none is greater than that of competition.

  Henry Clay

  Affair, Mankind, Humans

  Henry Clay (1857). “The speeches of Henry Clay”, p.469

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• In this day and time, with no competition you are really walking a tightrope. I mean you may think that no competition is good, but in reality no competition is really bad.

  Jerry Lawler

  Mean, Good Day, Reality

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• Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress.

  Herbert Hoover

  Business, Presidential, Progress

  United States. President (1929-1933 : Hoover), Herbert Hoover (1974). “Herbert Hoover: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President”

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• Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.

  Henry Ford

  Business, Cutting, Cost

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• Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

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• Be thankful for quality competitors who push you to your limit.

  Michael Josephson

  Being Thankful, Quality, Limits

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