Competition Quotes - Page 36

• Prison is a Socialist paradise where equality prevails, everything is supplied, and competition is eliminated.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Paradise, Prison, Socialist

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

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• There is an aura of changelessness to sport. There is the flux of competition, but it occurs within the ordering confinement of clear rules.

  George Will

  Sports, Auras, Flux

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• We learn not for life but for the debating-room.

  Seneca the Younger

  Rooms

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• I'm for each and against none.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

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• [T]he Super Bowl, the quintessential American creation. A dizzying mélange of brilliant entrepreneurship in an atmosphere of intense competition. It is the perfect show for the most intensely competitive culture in this solar system.

  Robert Klein

  Perfect, Atmosphere, Culture

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• It's a tough world out there and all the guys are fighting hard and the competition is really tough.

  Guy Forget

  Sports, Fighting, Guy

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• A country's competitiveness starts not on the factory floor or in the engineering lab. It starts in the classroom.

  Lee Iacocca

  Country, Engineering, Labs

  Lee A. Iacocca (1994). “I Gotta Tell You: Speeches of Lee Iacocca”, p.286, Wayne State University Press

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• Take the competition seriously, but not yourself.

  Richard Branson

  FaceBook post by Richard Branson from Aug 27, 2012

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• Potter is potter's enemy, and craftsman is craftsman's rival; tramp is jealous of tramp, and singer of singer.

  Hesiod

  Jealous, Enemy, Potters

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• Interleaf is very nice. I expect there to be a lot of competition for programs like that.

  Bill Joy

  Nice, Program, Very Nice

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• In recent years, perhaps encouraged by competition from McDonald's, the British hamburger has become a credit to the nation. At the time of which I speak, it looked like a scorched beer-coaster or a tenderized disc brake.

  Clive James

  Funny, Humorous, Beer

  Clive James (2012). “Always Unreliable: Memoirs”, p.307, Pan Macmillan

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• It is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. ... Since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition.

  Larry Page

  Inspirational, Dream, Crazy

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• Copy, not from your industry, from others. You have to go where there is no competition.

  Seth Godin

  Copies, Industry

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• Competition is healthy. It makes you work harder and strive for more and try to find that extra one or two percent in your game that you could possibly improve.

  Bernhard Langer

  Hard Work, Games, Two

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• In the tail above the giant resonance, you can get not just one neutron emitted but two, three, four or five, and so there are a lot of things one can measure, looking at the competition with the emission of neutrons and protons and so on.

  John Henry Carver

  Two, Giants, Three

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• Climbing does not mean just competition and performance. It has other qualities that are important: going on trips, meeting people, seeing other cultures.

  Wolfgang Gullich

  Mean, Climbing, Other Cultures

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• We are moving from a chain of command to a web of connection, from competition to collaboration, from
  markets to networks and stockholders to stakeholders, and greed to green.

  Anodea Judith

  Moving, Greed, Collaboration

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• The most meaningful way to differentiate your company from your competition, is to do an outstanding job with information.

  Bill Gates

  Meaningful, Jobs, Information

  "Business @ the Speed of Thought: Using a Digital Nervous System". Book by Bill Gates, www.entrepreneur.com. 1999.

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• We learned long ago that liberty could be preserved only by limiting in some way the freedom of action of individuals; that otherwise liberty would necessarily yield to absolutism; and in the same way we have learned that unless there be regulation of competition, its excesses will lead to the destruction of competition, and monopoly will take its place.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Yield, Long Ago, Liberty

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• Our attainments [in space] are a major element in the competition between the Soviet system and our own . . . . in this sense, [they] are part of the battle along the fluid front of the cold war.

  James E. Webb

  War, Moon, Space

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• An argument often given for why Earth couldn't host another form of life is that once the life we know became established, it would have eliminated any competition through natural selection. But if another form of life were confined to its own niche, there would be little direct competition with regular life.

  Paul Davies

  Would Be, Earth, Littles

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• Persons of slender intellectual stamina dread competition, as dwarfs are afraid of being run over in the street.

  William Hazlitt

  Running, Stupidity, Intellectual

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1467, Delphi Classics

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• After 10 years TNA talent still have an inferiority complex. If you don't think that you work for the BEST COMPANY EVER then nobody else will! As a performer you hav to act and project that where you work is the pinnacle of competition! If not then the whole place just seems second rate.

  Chris Jericho

  Thinking, Wwe, Years

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• The fact of the matter is that I've enjoyed the competition in life and the business of life; I've enjoyed all that goes with it.

  William Schreyer

  Matter, Facts, Enjoyed

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• I am in competition only with my father and my uncle (Mukesh Bhatt) because they taught me what I know today. I only believe in making movies with integrity.

  Pooja Bhatt

  Uncles, Father, Integrity

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