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• Obviously, the competitor in you, you want to be in the top three every time in the pool.

  Amanda Beard

  Three, Want, Pool

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• Customers are willing to try new things, and if you can survive, you will have fewer competitors. It's like entering the eye of the storm. As long as you are strong enough to survive, you can end up in still water by yourself.

  Brian Chesky

  Strong, Eye, Water

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• Not every financial company toppled during the 2008 crisis, and some seized the opportunity to take advantage of weaker competitors in the midst of the tumult.

  James C. Collins

  Opportunity, Financial, Midst

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• You see these dictators up on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police. They're afraid of words and thought. ... They make frantic efforts to bar our thoughts and words. ... A state of society where men may not speak their mind - where children denounce their parents to the police - where a businessman or small shopkeeper ruins his competitor by telling tales about his private opinion. Such a state of society cannot long endure if it is continually in contact with the healthy outside world.

  Winston Churchill

  Children, Men, Long

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• I don't know if I'd call myself a prodigy, but I was a big forensics competitor in high school, and then during college I spent some time working at speech and debate camps as a coach.

  Josh Gad

  School, College, Speech

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• So long as TARP money is wrapped up in GM, the company will never shake its 'Government Motors' image. That label, as competitors and GM employees are keenly aware, is code for one thing: 'GM is a failure'.

  Edward Whitacre, Jr.

  Government, Long, Labels

  "Ed Whitacre: Time for 'Government Motors' to Hit the Road". www.wsj.com. September 19, 2012.

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• Never played football, but I'm an athlete. I'm a competitor.

  Michael B. Jordan

  Football, Athlete

  Interview with Genevieve Koski, www.avclub.com. July 15, 2011.

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• I want to wake up every day and feel that I'm training harder than my competitors, that I'm dieting harder, that I'm recovering better. That's what gives me confidence when I'm lining up on the blocks. I've never gone out to prove people wrong. I just want to be the best that I can possibly be.

  Oscar Pistorius

  Block, People, Giving

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• Big companies are almost always far too slow to actually kill a small competitor.

  Omar Hamoui

  Bigs, Company, Big Companies

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• I read the papers, I surf the Web. At the beginning of the year, I try to see at least two episodes of every show on our network. Am I surfing? All the time. I'm aware of the landscape. I'm a competitor, so I have to know whom I'm competing with.

  Leslie Moonves

  Years, Two, Surfing

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• I fundamentally believe that politics is counterintuitive. The left think they're helping working people by providing more rights, but all that actually happens is you create poverty and despair, because jobs go to your competitors who have fewer rights for workers.

  Louise Mensch

  Jobs, Believe, Thinking

  "We're not all ogres". Interview with Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. September 30, 2011.

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• Obviously if you want to get good at something which is competitive, you have to think about it and practice a lot. You have to keep learning because world keeps changing and competitors keep learning. You have to go to bed wiser than you got up. As you try to master what you are trying to do – people who do that almost never fail utterly. Very few have ever failed with that approach. You may rise slowly, but you are sure to rise.

  Charlie Munger

  Thinking, Practice, People

  "Afternoon Session - 2010 Meeting". buffett.cnbc.com. May 1, 2010.

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• The only one I feel pressure from is myself to go and give my all for every match and, obviously, I'm a competitor.

  Caroline Wozniacki

  Giving, Pressure, Feels

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

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• There are so many tough opponents out there and tough competitors so I've never liked to look ahead.

  Caroline Wozniacki

  Opponents, Looks, Tough

  "The Busted Racquet Interview: Caroline Wozniacki". Interview with Chris Chase, sports.yahoo.com. March 8, 2011.

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• Now if you go exactly where your competitors are, you're dead.

  Thorsten Heins

  Ifs

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• You have to respect all your competitors.

  Thorsten Heins

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• I don't know that I came across as being real competitive on 'The Bachelor,' although maybe I did a little bit on 'Dancing with the Stars.' I am a born competitor. The bigger the challenge the better!

  Jake Pavelka

  Stars, Real, Dancing

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• Ukrainian business must really embrace global competition. We need to understand that competition for resources and clients is not with competitors from across the street or from another city, but with millions of businesses around the world.

  Victor Pinchuk

  Cities, Competition, Clients

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• From the consumer point of view, there may be questions about whether you'll have to be an AOL subscriber to get Time magazine, ... That combination of media with the access is one through which you may be able to block access to your competitors' subscribers.

  Charlene Li

  Block, Views, Media

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• I'm still here. I knocked off another competitor.

  David Letterman

  Stills

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• I just see myself as an athlete and a competitor, someone who just works really hard at trying to get better at golf.

  Zach Johnson

  Athlete, Golf, Get Better

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• A primary goal of teaching anything is the advantage that learning gives to people over their competitors who haven't been as well taught.

  Bobby Knight

  Teaching, People, Giving

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• If you change the rules of the market, you can be more successful than your competitors.

  Max McKeown

  Successful, Ifs

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• There is a tendency among some businesses to criticize and belittle their competitors. This is a bad procedure. Praise them. Learn from them. There are times when you can co-operate with them to their advantage and to yours! Speak well of them and they will speak well of you. You can't destroy good ideas. Take advantage of them.

  George Matthew Adams

  Ideas, Competition, Speak

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• The terrifying message of gay liberation is that men are capable of loving their brothers. It should be sweet news to every womanin the world, for, if the capacity of men to love whom they have been taught to treat as competitors and enemies can transcend their education, the world can begin to heal.

  Jane Rule

  Sweet, Brother, Gay

  Jane Rule (2013). “A Hot-Eyed Moderate: Essays”, p.140, Open Road Media

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