Competition Quotes - Page 38

• We expect a horse race, ... The reality is that competition drives all innovation. Intel did nothing with its 386 chip for five years until AMD introduced its own version in 1991.

  Lou Dobbs

  Horse, Reality, Race

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• I would say ... that moving jobs overseas is a reality of global competition, ... If you come from Pennsylvania, we've lost a lot of jobs from global competition. I think that's just a truth, if you will.

  Rick Santorum

  Jobs, Moving, Reality

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• I view it as a real competition. We're in a business where, you know what, there's no babies here. You go out, win the job and take it. I've been told by management, for the most part, that we're going to play the best people. Obviously, you've got to consider stuff like contracts - that's a reality of the game. But still, when it gets down to it, we're going to try and pick the guy that deserves to win the job.

  Willie Randolph

  Baby, Jobs, Real

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• I don't like the idea of competition - maybe because I kept losing them when I was a kid. Maybe it's better to be the one who loses?

  Michel Gondry

  Kids, Ideas, Losing

  "Michel Gondry: 'That's my new policy - self-censorship'" by Nick Bradshaw, www.theguardian.com. March 3, 2009.

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• All you now do is pursue your private objectives within society. Instead of us being a community, everybody is asked to seek their own personal ends. It's called competition. And competition is antagonism.

  Edward Bond

  Community, Ends, Antagonism

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• If you are a new startup company, try not to arouse the interest or suspicion of your competition; especially if they are a bigger company. They can crush you while you are still in your startup phase. Lie low while still strengthening your bottom line.

  Richard Branson

  Crush, Lying, Survival

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• Focus on your business strengths and keep its weaknesses away from the competition or public.

  Richard Branson

  Focus, Survival, Weakness

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• Seek out strategic alliances; they are essential to growth and provide resistance to bigger competition.

  Richard Branson

  Growth, Survival, Essentials

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• Banks and other providers of credit to households have been competing vigorously to expand or protect their market share. In the process, lending standards have been progressively eroded so that lenders are now engaging in practices that would have been regarded as out of the question five or ten years ago.

  Ian Macfarlane

  Years, Practice, Credit

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• I believe that competition in the future will not be only an advertising competition between individual products or between big associations, but that it will in addition be a competition of propaganda.

  Edward Bernays

  Believe, Association, Advertising

  Edward Bernays (2017). “Propaganda”, p.63, Lulu.com

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• We're looking for something where we can make something happen: an industry where the competition is asleep, hasn't taken advantage. It's going to be hard to find another Blockbuster, but that doesn't mean you can't have three good companies growing. The point is, we're going to be busy.

  Wayne Huizenga

  Taken, Mean, Three

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• Small groups of persons can, and do, make the rest of us think what they please about a given subject. But there are usually proponents and opponents of every propaganda, both of whom are equally eager to convince the majority.

  Edward Bernays

  Thinking, Majority, Groups

  Edward Bernays (2017). “Propaganda”, p.21, Lulu.com

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• Our philosophy has been to be fiscally conservative, so we can be operationally aggressive. We're not using borrowed money to grow. So we'll put up a store just to get there before the competition. If it doesn't work, we'll close it and lose a little equity. It won't kill us.

  Wayne Huizenga

  Money, Philosophy, Littles

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• Bill Maher and I are on against each other, and we're friends. He can do my show any time he wants, and I've done Politically Incorrect several times. There's no reason to think competition has to be adversarial.

  Jay Leno

  Friendship, Thinking, Done

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• As with all politically lead governments, foreign investment is the slowest in the media section. Politicians are somewhat paranoid about the media but we still think it's worthwhile.

  Rupert Murdoch

  Thinking, Government, Media

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• I can't deny that Jerry Springer supposedly beating us didn't affect me. There was a point where I felt like, Golly, you work so hard, you try so hard and the people say they want meaningful television and then Jerry Springer ends up beating you. It was disturbing.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Meaningful, Work, People

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• Market competition is the only form of organization which can afford a large measure of freedom to the individual.

  Frank Knight

  Organization, Individuality, Form

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• As the only girl growing up among three brothers, I was always afraid of being excluded. If there was a game to be played, a sport to be learned, a competition to join, I was on my feet and ready. I didn't spend much time alone for fear that I'd miss out.

  Elisabeth Shue

  Girl, Sports, Brother

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• In a competition of love we'll all share in the victory, no matter who comes first

  Muhammad Ali

  Victory, Matter, Firsts

  Twitter post from Dec 25, 2010

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• However, optimism is highly valued, socially and in the market; people and firms reward the providers of dangerously misleading information more than they reward truth tellers. One of the lessons of the financial crisis that led to the Great Recession is that there are periods in which competition, among experts and among organizations, creates powerful forces that favor a collective blindness to risk and uncertainty.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Powerful, Organization, Optimism

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• A variety of factors contribute to the price of gasoline in the United States. These factors include worldwide supply, demand and competition for crude oil, taxes, regional differences in access to gasoline supplies and environmental regulations

  Gary Miller

  Oil, Differences, Environmental

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• My best year of track competition was the first year I ate a vegan diet.

  Carl Lewis

  Years, Track, Best Year

  Introduction to "Very Vegetarian" by Jannequin Bennett, 2001.

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• There's a lot of emotions that always come out after a skate of a lifetime. I always start crying because there is so much buildup to that competition.

  Michelle Kwan

  Emotion, Cry, Lifetime

  "Cool on the ice". www.cnn.com.

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• I'm happy because I got another medal. It's a competition and it's ice and anything can happen.

  Irina Slutskaya

  Ice, Anything Can Happen, Happens

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• I am happy. I skated well. This is a competition and sometimes things don't go as you'd like them to.

  Irina Slutskaya

  Sometimes, Wells

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