Competition Quotes - Page 24

• Golf was my vehicle to competition and I can't play if I can't compete.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Golf, Play, Vehicle

  "Jack's new world". Interview with Will Buckley, www.theguardian.com. March 15, 2008.

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• Vancouver is an amazing city and luckily, growing up in the Seattle area, I was able to immerse myself into the culture at a young age, traveling back and forth across the border for skating competitions as a youngster.

  Apolo Ohno

  Growing Up, Cities, Age

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• DJs are in incredible competition, musically. And they are the most musically creative and sensitive people in all the music charts. I am amazed how they are.

  Yoko Ono

  People, Creative, Incredibles

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• If anything I try to write something that would be more difficult to film. I tend to see film as competition and would like instead to do what books do best.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Book, Writing, Trying

  "Chuck Palahniuk: 'I wrote the book while my mother was dying of cancer'" by Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. September 03, 2011.

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• In China, export lobbies have fought for policies that favor their interests and limit foreign competition.

  Henry Paulson

  Favors, Limits, China

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• Competition is always a good thing. It forces us to do our best. A monopoly renders people complacent and satisfied with mediocrity.

  Nancy Pearcey

  People, Mediocrity, Good Things

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• South Africa has all the tools to compete in the new global village - an eager workforce, ready to take on any challenge.

  Tom Peters

  Challenges, Tools, Village

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  A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.

  Emo Philips

  Funny, Motivational Sports, Humorous

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• There's a misconception that survival of the fittest means survival of the most aggressive. The adjective 'Darwinian' used to refer to ruthless competition; you used to read that in business journals. But that's not what Darwinian means to a biologist; it's whatever leads to reproductive success.

  Steven Pinker

  Mean, Survival, Adjectives

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• The larger the state, the more callous it becomes... the colder its heart. It is also true that the bigger the corporation, the more callous its heart. But unlike the state, corporations have competition and have no police powers.

  Dennis Prager

  Heart, Police, Corporations

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• I've been in international competition, and now I know what the big boys can do. You don't go out and just run. There's an offense and a defense.

  Steve Prefontaine

  Running, Boys, Defense

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• I view my strongest competition as myself. You're always trying to top yourself, rather than worrying about what other people are doing.

  John C. Reilly

  Views, Always Trying, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In the four decades after World War II, manufacturing jobs paid more than other jobs for given skills. But that is much less true today. Increased international competition has forced American manufacturers to reduce costs. As a result, the pay premium for low-skilled workers in manufacturing is smaller than it once was.

  Christina Romer

  Jobs, War, Skills

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• Many of my students assume that government protection is the only thing ensuring decent wages for most American workers. But basic economics shows that competition between employers for workers can be very effective at preventing businesses from misbehaving.

  Christina Romer

  Government, Wages, Students

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• Our competition for American business is no longer in the next county or the next state, it's around the world.

  Karl Rove

  Next, World, States

  Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. November 7, 2004.

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• There is a consensus of willing leaders from both parties coalescing around the right way forward in health care. Reform should address government-imposed inequities and barriers to true choice and competition.

  Paul Ryan

  Party, Health, Government

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• The merit of a democratic regime rests on one's continual willingness to exchange views, and to compete on the basis of individual merit and capacities.

  Jose Eduardo Dos Santos

  Views, Merit, Individual

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• I want to wage war against illiteracy, poverty, unemployment, unfair competition, communitarianism, delinquency.

  Nicolas Sarkozy

  War, Unemployment, Want

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• I've been playing against older and stronger competition my whole life. It has made me a better tennis player and able to play against this kind of level despite their strength and experience.

  Maria Sharapova

  Player, Tennis, Stronger

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• Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Fear, Pride, Weakness

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• Believing that your competition is stronger and better than you pushes you to better yourselves.

  Simon Sinek

  Believe, Stronger, Better Than You

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• Americans' addiction to sports, with the NFL at the top, is based on the excitement generated by the potential for the unexpected great play which can only happen with honest competition from great athletes.

  Arlen Specter

  Sports, Athlete, Play

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• As someone with a deep faith in competition and the market, I also know that markets only work with tough enforcement of the rules that guarantee competition and fair play - and that the pressure to break those rules only gets stronger as the amount of money involved gets larger.

  Eliot Spitzer

  Play, Stronger, Enforcement

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• Intellectual-property rules are clearly necessary to spur innovation: if every invention could be stolen, or every new drug immediately copied, few people would invest in innovation. But too much protection can strangle competition and can limit what economists call 'incremental innovation' - innovations that build, in some way, on others.

  James Surowiecki

  People, Drug, Innovation

  "Exporting I.P". www.newyorker.com. May 14, 2007.

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• What corporations fear is the phenomenon now known, rather inelegantly, as 'commoditization.' What the term means is simply the conversion of the market for a given product into a commodity market, which is characterized by declining prices and profit margins, increasing competition, and lowered barriers to entry.

  James Surowiecki

  Mean, Profit Margin, Corporations

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