Competitors Quotes - Page 7

• Just as at the Olympic games it is not the handsomest or strongest men who are crowned with victory but the successful competitors, so in life it is those who act rightly who carry off all the prizes and rewards.

  Aristotle

  Success, Men, Games

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• We're all competitors, you know? The player wants to get a hit. The manager wants to win. I want to get it right. To tell you the truth, I just love that competition.

  Bruce Froemming

  Winning, Player, Competition

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• I looked at my competitors and I thought that, "If they could do it, I could do it. And if, they are popular and doing well, I could compete with them."

  Tommy Hilfiger

  Wells, Ifs

  "I Am American Business", www.cnbc.com. June 24, 2012.

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• The competition between human beings destroys with cold and diabolic brutality... Under the pressure of this competitive fury we have not only forgotten what is useful to humanity as a whole, but even that which is good and advantageous to the individual. [...] One asks, which is more damaging to modern humanity: the thirst for money or consuming haste... in either case, fear plays a very important role: the fear of being overtaken by one's competitors, the fear of becoming poor, the fear of making wrong decisions or the fear of not being up to snuff...

  Konrad Lorenz

  Play, Decision, Humanity

  "Civilized Man's Eight Deadly Sins". Book by Konrad Lorenz, 1973.

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• Strength of will - is essential to your survival and success. The competitor who won't go away, who won't stay down, has one of the most formidable competitive advantages of all. In evaluating people, I prize ego. It often translates into a fierce desire to do their best and an inner confidence that stands them in good stead when things really get rough. Psychologists suggest that there is a strong link between ego and competitiveness. All the great performers I've ever coached had ego to spare.

  Bill Walsh

  Strong, People, Ego

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• I’m proud to be Japanese and I wanted my country to succeed. I believed my system was a way that could help us become a modern industrial nation. That is why I had no problem with sharing it with other Japanese companies, even my biggest competitors.

  Taiichi Ohno

  Country, Proud, Way

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• I think it's just the nature of our game that we're friends out here, although we are competitors, we are friends. And you like to see your friend do well, and you sometimes need another pair of eyes.

  Steve Stricker

  Eye, Thinking, Games

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• Competitive advantage is a companys ability to perform in one or more ways that competitors cannot or will not match.

  Philip Kotler

  Way, Advantage, Ability

  Philip Kotler (2009). “Marketing Management”, p.373, Pearson Education

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• The web is the ultimate customer-empowering environment. He or she who clicks the mouse gets to decide everything. It is so easy to go elsewhere; all the competitors in the world are but a mouseclick away.

  Jakob Nielsen

  Empowering, World, Environment

  Jakob Nielsen (2000). “Designing Web Usability”, New Riders Pub

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• Passing competitors always gives you a lift. It probably has a physical effect, too, because you get a surge of adrenaline.

  Libbie Hickman

  Giving, Passing, Adrenaline

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• If there are too many competitors, even if you're the best it's a lot harder to win.

  Tony Hsieh

  Winning, You Re The Best, Harder

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• The great disadvantage of being in a rat race is that it is humiliating. The competitors in a rat race are by definition rodents.

  Margaret Halsey

  Race, Rodents, Definitions

  Margaret Halsey (1952). “The Folks at Home”

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• You're not smarter than your competitor. Just copy what they do and do it until you get their numbers.

  Mark Pincus

  Numbers, Copies, Smarter

  "FarmVillains " by Peter Jamison, archives.sfweekly.com. September 08, 2010.

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• If global warming is such a bad thing, then why is it taking out all of mankind's competitors? It just seems to me that the less species are out there, killing all our Caribou, the better.

  Zach Braff

  Global Warming, Killing, Mankind

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• Admitting that it is the profession of our sex to teach, we perceive the mother to be first in point of precedence, in degree of power, in the faculty of teaching, and in the department allotted. For in point of precedence she is next to the Creator, in power over her pupil, limitless and without competitor.

  Lydia Sigourney

  Education, Mother, Sex

  Lydia Howard Sigourney (1845). “Letters to Mothers”, p.16

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• In practice, without appropriate government intervention, Smith's "invisible hand" dons brass knuckles and conducts gang warfare, creating fierce battles between competitors who would be more than happy to define and enforce their own private property interests according to their own subjective rules.

  Denise Caruso

  Government, Hands, Practice

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• Even if your competitor is still small in size or weak, you should take him seriously and treat him as a giant. Likewise, even if your competitor is massive in size, you shouldn't regard yourself as a weakling.

  Jack Ma

  Leadership, Business, Giants

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• The successful competitor, having been urged to compete, must not be turned upon when he wins.

  Learned Hand

  Successful, Winning, Competition

  "The art and craft of judging: the decisions of Judge Learned Hand".

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• Unless you frame yourself, others will frame you — the media, your enemies, your competitors, your well-meaning friends.

  George Lakoff

  Media, Enemy, Wells

  "How to Frame Yourself: A Framing Memo for Occupy Wall Street" by George Lakoff, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 19, 2011.

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• People can be great competitors on Sunday and mates on Monday.

  Casey Stoner

  Monday, Sunday, People

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

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• Successful competitors want to win. Head cases want to win at all costs.

  Nancy Lopez

  Successful, Winning, Cost

  Nancy Lopez (2000). “The Complete Golfer”, Galahad Books

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• Most of the exercise I get is from standing and walking around laboratory tables all day. I derive more benefit and entertainment from this than some of my friends and competitors get from playing games like golf.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Motivational, Exercise, Golf

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• He's a very competitive competitor, that's the sort of competitor he is.

  Dorian Williams

  Racing, Funny Racing

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• In order to become a grandmaster class player whose understanding of chess is superior to the thousands of ordinary players, you have to develop within yourself a large number of qualities, the qualities of an artistic creator, a calculating practitioner, a cold calm competitor.

  Alexander Kotov

  Player, Order, Class

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• Any idol, regardless of its beauty or usefulness or original purpose, is to be set aside so that Christ might reign supreme, without a single competitor.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Christian, Idols, Religion

  Charles R. Swindoll (1979). “Home, where life makes up its mind”

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