Competition Quotes - Page 10

• 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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• The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together.

  Karl Marx

  Division Of Labor, Together, Wages

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1973). “Karl Marx on Society and Social Change: With Selections by Friedrich Engels”, p.97, University of Chicago Press

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• When I go out on the ice, I just think about my skating. I forget it is a competition.

  Katarina Witt

  Inspirational, Basketball, Sports

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• I don't know if it's just me or everyone, but the whole vibe with skiing is not so much thriving on competition against others as it is against myself and the clock.

  Picabo Street

  Focus, Skiing, Clock

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• I never noticed competing with other generations. There's competition within your own generation, but that competition is good. Maybe you're annoyed that somebody's getting more money than you are, but what's really annoying is if someone's painting a better painting than you're making. So it's something to think about and work toward and stay focused on.

  Frank Stella

  Thinking, Annoyed, Generations

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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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• 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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• 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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• Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers.

  Thomas Sowell

  Jobs, Government, Doe

  Thomas Sowell (1987). “Compassion Versus Guilt and Other Essays”, William Morrow

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• We're just trying to end illegitimate government support for a single technology, which is un-American. We should be leading the world in the next generation of technological innovation. But we can't unleash private capital because of what the government is doing to stifle innovation and to choke competition.

  Van Jones

  Technology, Government, Support

  Source: aalbc.com

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• That's America, competition.

  John Calipari

  America

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• The American culture especially, and Western culture in general, urges us to not only become the best that we can be, but also win against the competition.

  Roger Housden

  Winning, Western Culture, American Culture

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Our point is we don`t want to sit in the government and tell you what you have to buy [as a health insurance]. We want to make this work so that you have choices, so that we have more competition.

  Paul Ryan

  Government, Choices, Want

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• You are facing death and danger and competition, but at any moment, you can decide to have a fearless mindset.

  Robert Greene

  Fearless, Moments, Mindset

  Source: allhiphop.com

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

  Harvey Mackay

  Life Is, Series

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• With competition everyone has to try harder.

  Harold H. Greene

  Trying, Harder

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

  Henry Ford

  Business, Cutting, Cost

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

  Michael Josephson

  Being Thankful, Quality, Limits

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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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