Famous Quotes & Sayings

Evan Davis

My instinct is to assume that we consumers are an inconsistent bunch. We like competition if it delivers low prices, but grumble if it delivers the bad news that prices need to go up.

Esa-Pekka Salonen

If I were in a position to announce a public competition to coin a new word, I would do so right now.

Hope Solo

I live for competition. It makes my life complete.

Ian Rankin

I wrote my first short story for a competition and won second prize. Another competition came up and I won first prize. The first story was published in a newspaper. The second went out on radio.

Hugo Chavez

We have to re-invent socialism. It can’t be the kind of socialism that we saw in the Soviet Union, but it will emerge as we develop new systems that are built on cooperation, not competition,

Hannah Arendt

According to bourgeois standards, those who are completely unlucky and unsuccessful are automatically barred from competition, which is the life of society. Good fortune is identified with honor, and bad luck with shame.

Gaylord has a lot of returning players off a team that was solid last season. They're great competition.

Gap may run into more competition than they think.

Games like this are good for us. It will get us ready for next week. It's always good playing the quality competition Althoff provides.

Good, old-fashioned competition should determine the price of insurance rather than regulation.

Fred Allen

We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to supply himself with jokes and comedy material to compete with the machine. Whether he knows it or not, the comedian is on a treadmill to oblivion.

Christopher Bond

It is U.S. workers who lose out when employers cannot get the high-tech graduates they need to compete with foreign companies in the 21st century economy.

George Stigler

The delicate and intricate pattern of competition and cooperation in the economic behavior of the hundreds of thousands of citizens of Stockholm offers a challenge to the economist that is perhaps as complex as the challenges of the physicist and the chemist.

George Stephenson

Where combination is possible, competition is impossible.

I've always believed that competition is good for consumers and good for businesses.

John Hurt

I've always felt, and I think I'm qualified to say so because I've won a few awards, that it's a terrible shame to put something in competition with something else to be able to sell something.

Mahesh Bhatt

Sometimes, in the face of fierce competition, actors were tempted to sign more films than they could cope with.

It was a good experience for our kids. It's always good to play good competition.

I've heard nothing but positives about it. Competition is good. I think it's wonderful.

Jessica Sanchez

I'm playing a powerhouse singer who is big competition, but she's also really down to earth and sweet. But the whole sweet thing goes away when she's in competition mode. I love the show, so I'm very excited to be a part of it. I'm going to kill it on 'Glee!'

I'm just glad to be here right now. I'm glad we won that one. It's a big transition going from C to B, the competition is a lot tougher. I'm excited how we're playing right now. I'm proud of how my seniors stepped up.

Erykah Badu

I'm only in competition with my last level. It don't have nothing to do with music or anything. And the last level is hard competition, the last place you were.

Florence Nightingale

At present we live to impede each other's satisfactions; competition, domestic life, society, what is it all but this?

Dan Glickman

Despite increasing competition for consumers' time and entertainment dollars, theater-going remains a satisfying constant in people's lives.

William Hunter

As competition is reduced, prices go up. You will be able to get where you are going, but it will cost more.

As coaches, we were really proud of them. They had to defeat some tough competition and they really did a great job.

Dennis Ritchie

As a general phenomenon, I think they're great, but they suffer from much the same struggles and competition that the proprietary ones did and do.

Premiere is solidly ... positioned for the future competition in the TV market.

Saul did well in the first couple of matches of the season but he knows there is competition for places now,

Hillary Clinton

Putin is playing the long game. He has a strategic plan in mind: the Eurasian Union, which would be in competition to Europe.

Jurgen Klinsmann

Perhaps it is unusual for some goalkeepers but we have to be prepared if someone gets injured. This system stimulates competition and gives everyone a fair chance.

Greg Schiano

Ray is a mature young man. You can talk to him like a man and he listens. And there's competition. Competition always keeps everyone's head on straight.

Prohibiting direct transactions between producers and consumers only results in paralyzing competition and consumer choice.