Famous Quotes & Sayings

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?

Strong competition contributed to declining prices for semiconductors, which resulted in nominal growth on higher unit sales in July,

Students come to me about eight weeks before a competition, and we select a piece together. It is really important for a good fit between the words and the students who will speak them.

Sun is seeing some strength in government and healthcare, but competition -- mostly with IBM -- remains acute,

Summit and VISX sought to exempt themselves from the forces of competition by monopolizing the market for laser eye surgery and increasing the price of this important new procedure,

It's ironic. The President talks about global competitiveness, then they cut funding.

Sidney Crosby

It's probably pretty funny that it could be a little competition we have there.

It's pretty typical of this team to play to the level of the competition. We're getting a better understanding of each other's roles. We're doing the same things we've always done, we're just getting better at them.

Consumers shouldn't infer that there is something particularly suspect going on if they see price variations. . . . If you saw the same price at every station it might indicate competition is working perfectly, but it isn't inconsistent with competition that there's a variety of prices.

Consumers have won today, ... And competition has been preserved.

Considering how strong the field of competition is, in retrospect, it doesn't surprise me as much as it had initially.

The NHL as an opportunity is obviously one where the level of competition is as good as it gets. It's an opportunity to improve our network on the path we've been on for a couple of years.

The next two weeks we will be focusing on consistency. We have to be able to put that consistency together in the competition when it counts. Experience helps.

The objective is to promote competition and to ensure that consumers are not punished for crossing a border.

The number one on the party list should be at least a member of our party. If Kasyanov joins the party and wants to top the list, we will, of course, consider his candidacy, but competition for the place is tough.

Graeme Samuel

Even with Toll's proposed undertakings, significant detrimental effects on competition are still likely to arise.

Even with the same rating level but with better mobility and endurance makes the competition somewhat unbalanced,

Reed Hundt

Everybody agrees that you want competition. But you have to have rules of fair competition if you want to have competitors to enter the market.

Jim Brown

It was really disappointing down there. It was a tough field, but that's the way I have always scheduled. I want our guys to play tough competition to see what it takes to get to that level.

It was a tough race out there with great competition. It was the strongest field that I can ever remember in terms of competition. I'm proud of our eighth-place finish. I think the girls had a great year, and it's a real honor to be in the top 10 at nationals.

It was a tough course and tough competition. Had we shot our best, we would have only jumped one or two teams.

Allen Johnson

It was a very tough year for the 110m hurdles. Every competition is like a World Championships final,