Competitiveness Quotes - Page 2

• 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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• Competition is great for everyone. Sports can teach you so much at an early age, including camaraderie and sportsmanship. Competition aspect is something I've always been big on - I always wanted to compete in something. It was swimming for many years, then I moved on to basketball. I had to find a way to channel my competitive energy, so I'm lucky that basketball worked out for me.

  Tim Duncan

  Basketball, Sports, Swimming

  Interview with Josh Staph, www.stack.com. January 1, 2007.

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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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• To restore America's competitiveness, we must recruit a new generation of science and technology leaders by investing in diversity.

  Barack Obama

  Technology, America, Diversity

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• I believe that anyone can be successful in life, regardless of natural talent or the environment within which we live. This is not based on measuring success by human competitiveness for wealth, possessions, influence, and fame, but adhering to God's standards of truth, justice, humility, service, compassion, forgiveness, and love.

  Jimmy Carter

  Believe, Humility, Successful

  Jimmy Carter (2014). “The Jimmy Carter Library”, p.444, Simon and Schuster

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• If we look to the future, when we talk about outsourcing jobs, when we talk about global competitiveness and our efficiency, none of that matters very much unless we have appropriate training and education for our young people today who are the workforce of tomorrow. It is an economic reality, and we are failing.

  Bill Frist

  Jobs, Reality, People

  Bill Frist (2006). “Bill Frist: A Senator Speaks Out on Ethics, Respect, and Compassion”, p.86, Xulon Press

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• Senator Allen has long been a leader on competitiveness issues in the Senate and as governor of Virginia. His announcement of the Competitiveness Caucus comes as great news to the nation's manufacturers. We support every item on this agenda and will work with Senator Allen and others to make it a reality. The time has come for Congress to recognize the vital role manufacturing plays in American life and do what it can to strengthen our ability to compete in the global marketplace.

  John Engler

  Reality, Virginia, Play

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• You just hear this constant whining, complaining about a loss of competitiveness, America in decline

  Phil Gramm

  Loss, America, Complaining

  "Gramm: We need more leadership, less whining" by Dana Bash, www.cnn.com. July 10, 2008.

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• More and more people work on Sundays as a consequence of the competitiveness imposed by a consumer society.

  Pope Francis

  Sunday, People, Consumers

  "Pope Francis: Conversations with Jorge Bergoglio". Book by Francesca Ambrogetti and Sergio Rubin, www.nytimes.com. 2010.

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• Greening school design provides an extraordinarily cost-effective way to enhance student learning, reduce health and operational costs and, ultimately, increase school quality and competitiveness.

  Gregory Kats

  School, Design, Quality

  "Greening America’s Schools: costs and benefits". Research by Gregory Kats, www.usgbc.org. October 2006.

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• Competitiveness demands flexibility, choice and openness - or Europe will fetch up in a no-man's land between the rising economies of Asia and market-driven North America.

  David Cameron

  Men, Europe, Land

  "British PM says stick with EU but promises referendum". "AM" with Rachael Brown, www.abc.net.au. January 24, 2013.

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• Now the main areas of higher education that still enjoy considerable financial support from government are subjects like engineering and science and the research ringfence which is the basic minimum to protect Britain's scientific competitiveness.

  Vince Cable

  Government, Engineering, Support

  "Vince Cable takes on chancellor over plans for cuts in science" by Daniel Boffey, www.theguardian.com. November 17, 2012.

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• We need economic policies in the U.S. that produce jobs, first of all, but good jobs, second of all. Believe it or not, Germany, a country characterized by high wages, strong unions, a social safety net, and so forth is the second largest exporter (after China) in the world. The idea that the only way to succeed is by eliminating vacations, sick days, worker protections, and so forth is simply belied by the competitiveness rankings produced by the Economist magazine's intelligence unit and by the World Economic Forum.

  Jeffrey Pfeffer

  Country, Strong, Believe

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• The overall effect of the GEA will be to increase unit production costs, diminish competitiveness, cut the rate of return to capital in key sectors, reduce employment, and make households worse off.

  Ross McKitrick

  Cutting, Keys, Employment

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• I have a string of competitiveness in me. It's really strange 'cause it's not something that I would even expect myself to have, but every now and then it kinda sneaks out, you know.

  Hunter Hayes

  Causes, Strange, Now And Then

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• There was quite a lot of competitiveness about it, with everybody wanting to beat not only cancer itself, but also the other people in the room. Like, I realize that this is irrational, but when they tell you that you have, say, a 20 percent chance of living five years, the math kicks in and you figure that’s one in five . . . so you look around and think, as any healthy person would: I gotta outlast four of these bastards.

  John Green

  Real, Cancer, Math

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.213, Penguin

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• Love makes you empty - empty of jealousy, empty of power trips, empty of anger, empty of competitiveness, empty of your ego and all its garbage. But love also makes you full of things which are unknown to you right now; it makes you full of fragrance, full of light, full of joy.

  Rajneesh

  Jealousy, Light, Joy

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• Competitiveness is a personality thing and competitive people don't become pushovers the day they turn fifty.

  Hale Irwin

  People, Personality, Age

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• Supporters of this fundamental change in immigration policy say we need to import more well-educated talent if we're to stay competitive. But exactly whose competitiveness are we talking about? Not the competitiveness of, say, American-born computer engineers. Adjusted for inflation, their earnings haven't gone anywhere in years. That's in part because American companies have been sending so much of their high-tech work abroad. Bringing more foreign-born engineers here under an expanded H1-B visa program, or a point system for that matter, will just depress wages even further.

  Ronald Reagan

  Depressing, Talking, Years

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• When considering the stature of an athlete or for that matter any person, I set great store in certain qualities which I believe to be essential in addition to skill. They are that the person conducts his or her life with dignity, with integrity, courage, and perhaps most of all, with modesty. These virtues are totally compatible with pride, ambition, and competitiveness

  Donald Bradman

  Sports, Integrity, Believe

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• All the courage and competitiveness of Jackie Robinson affects me to this day. If I patterned my life after anyone it was him, not because he was the first black baseball player in the majors but because he was a hero.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Basketball, Baseball, Courage

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• My philosophy is that you can't motivate players with speeches, you have motivated players that you draft. That's where they come in and those are the guys that are competitive. You cannot teach competitiveness.

  Phil Jackson

  Basketball, Philosophy, Player

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• We have the misconception that competitiveness means winning at all costs, but that's not what competition is. Competition is just doing your best and not giving up. We all face a moment in a race or in a competition in which we want to give up. We can either give in and not keep pushing, or we can charge forward and work through it.

  Lisa Rainsberger

  Softball, Sports, Giving Up

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• In the land of "I know," there is always competitiveness, jealousy, pretence, pride and arrogance. It is an aggressive realm - the realm of the ego. I say refuse citizenship. In the land of "I dont know," the inhabitants move without conflict and are naturally quiet, happy and peaceful. The wise stay here.

  Mooji

  Wise, Spiritual, Wisdom

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• Our future growth relies on competitiveness and innovation, skills and productivity... and these in turn rely on the education of our people.

  Julia Gillard

  Skills, People, Innovation

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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