Competitiveness Quotes

• Every quarterback can throw a ball; every running back can run; every receiver is fast; but that mental toughness that you talk about translates into competitiveness.

  Tom Brady

  Football, Running, Nfl

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The essence of competitiveness is liberated when we make people believe that what they think and do is important - and then get out of their way while they do it.

  Jack Welch

  Inspirational, Believe, Thinking

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• There are so many great things about this business. Almost everybody is on the same team. It is all for one-friendly competitiveness. No one is out to hurt anyone.

  Bobby Flay

  Hurt, Team, Friendly

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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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• The other thing I knew I had was a high level of competitiveness.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Levels, High Level

  "Duke of the Court". Interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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• I didn't like the competitiveness of big-time journalism.

  Charles Kuralt

  Journalism, Bigs

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• Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering competitiveness.

  James D. Watson

  Science, Giving, Together

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• I hope that we can continue this cooperation on other critical issues related to America's future technological competitiveness. We must work together to encourage the creative talents that have made our country the world leader in technology.

  Dan Lipinski

  Country, Technology, America

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• I have argued above that we cannot prevent the Singularity, that its coming is an inevitable consequence of the humans natural competitiveness and the possibilities inherent in technology.

  Vernor Vinge

  Technology, Natural, Possibility

  "The Coming Technological Singularity: How to Survive in the Post-Human Era". Book by Vernor Vinge, 1993.

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• Personally, I think that for example the chemical directive in its present form does too much damage to the chemical industry - especially the medium sized businesses - and will hurt our worldwide competitiveness.

  Angela Merkel

  Hurt, Thinking, Example

  Interview with Bertrand Benoit and Andrew Gowers, www.ft.com. July 20, 2005.

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• Following the rise of the Labour Party it seemed reasonable, in 1927, to expect, or at least hope, that co-operation for the common good might gradually replace the competitiveness of capitalism.

  Dora Russell

  Party, Might, Common

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• We are turning against boys and forgetting a simple truth: that the energy, competitiveness, and corporal daring of normal, decent males is responsible for much of what is right in the world.

  Christina Hoff Sommers

  Boys, Simple, Energy

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• Taken as a whole, Europe's share of world output is projected to fall by almost a third in the next two decades. This is the competitiveness challenge - and much of our weakness in meeting it is self-inflicted. Complex rules restricting our labour markets are not some naturally occurring phenomenon.

  David Cameron

  Fall, Taken, Self

  "David Cameron's EU speech - full text". www.theguardian.com. January 23, 2013.

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• I am personally convinced - and I think the Greek people share this belief in a fundamental way - that we can achieve fiscal consolidation more effectively and we can restore competitiveness in a more fundamental and permanent way within the euro area than outside.

  Lucas Papademos

  Thinking, People, Greek

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• So Europe needs to be competitive and we also need to be competitive if we wish to remain an interesting economic partner for the United States. This has to be done on the basis of strength, of competitiveness.

  Angela Merkel

  Europe, Interesting, Wish

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Eurobonds are absolutely wrong. In order to bring about common interest rates, you need similar competitiveness levels, similar budget situations. You don't get them by collectivizing debts.

  Angela Merkel

  Order, Needs, Debt

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• More of the same will just produce more of the same - less competitiveness, less growth, fewer jobs.

  David Cameron

  Jobs, Growth, Produce

  "Cameron postpones big speech on Europe" by Nicholas Watt, Juliette Jowit, www.theguardian.com. January 17, 2013.

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• I am confident that we can overcome this crisis, provided that we remain united in our effort to address our debt and competitiveness problems. And I think that the Greek people are united; it's important also that the political forces are united in line with the will of the Greek people.

  Lucas Papademos

  Thinking, People, Political

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• The EU should be concentrated on adapting to globalisation and global competitiveness, not building more powerful centralised institutions in Brussels.

  William Hague

  Powerful, Building, Should

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• The government is determined to continue the process of fiscal consolidation and structural reform in order to secure sound public finances and improve the country's international competitiveness.

  Lucas Papademos

  Country, Government, Order

  "General strike brings Greece to a surprisingly calm halt" by Helena Smith, www.theguardian.com. December 1, 2011.

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• Sure, I have advice for people starting to write. Don't. I don't need the competition.

  Robert B. Parker

  Funny, Writing, People

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• Fighter pilot is an attitude. It is cockiness. It is aggressiveness. It is self-confidence. It is a streak of rebelliousness, and it is competitiveness. But there's something else - there's a spark. There's a desire to be good. To do well; in the eyes of your peers, and in your own mind.

  Robin Olds

  Attitude, Eye, Self Confidence

  Christina Olds, Ed Rasimus, Robin Olds (2010). “Fighter Pilot: The Memoirs of Legendary Ace Robin Olds”, p.291, Macmillan

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• I learned then that my competitiveness is so strong I can't even control it.

  Choi Minho

  Strong, I Can

  Source: fuckyeahminhochoi.tumblr.com

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• Internationalism means that we can see into the dark corners of the world, and hold those companies to account when they are devastating forests or employing children as bonded labour. Globalization is the complete opposite, its rules pit country against country and workers against workers in the blinkered pursuit of international competitiveness.

  Anita Roddick

  Country, Children, Mean

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• Basketball is a pretty simple game. What wins is consistency and competitiveness.

  Gregg Popovich

  Basketball, Winning, Simple

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