Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Branson

Take the competition seriously, but not yourself.

Richard Branson

Don't bother doing something unless you're radically different from the competition.

Tina Fey

You’re in competition with everyone.

Lee Kuan Yew

India is scared of the competition... because Chinese goods will go into India and compete.

Les Brown

When a show fails to destroy the competition-and it can fail while attracting 20 million viewers-it is itself destroyed.

Tavis Smiley

Competition's always been a product of American lifestyle

Paul Davies

An argument often given for why Earth couldn't host another form of life is that once the life we know became established, it would have eliminated any competition through natural selection. But if another form of life were confined to its own niche, there would be little direct competition with regular life.

Patrick Dempsey

With competition there is always ego and hubris... competition gets in the way of work.

Henry Paulson

In China, export lobbies have fought for policies that favor their interests and limit foreign competition.

Hilaire Belloc

It was the Faith which gradually and indirectly transformed the slave into the serf, and the serf into the free peasant. . . . You will not be able to set up in a pagan or an heretical or a wholly indifferent society the institutions characteristic of economic freedom; you will not be able to curb competition which alone would be sufficient to destroy such freedom, nor pursue permanently and consecutively anyone part of the program. The thing must be done as a whole, and it can be done as a whole only by the ambient influence of Catholicism.

Henry Clay

Of all human powers operating on the affairs of mankind, none is greater than that of competition.

Henry Clay

By competition the total amount of supply is increased, and by increase of the supply a competition in the sale ensues, and this enables the consumer to buy at lower rates. Of all human powers operating on the affairs of mankind, none is greater than that of competition.

It is through cooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes will be derived.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Competition is an easy way to get into flow.

Peter Thiel

As you craft a plan to expand to adjacent markets, don't disrupt: Avoid competition as much as possible.

Peter Thiel

All failed companies are the same: they failed to escape competition.

Randy Castillo

I dig all kinds of competition.

Randy Couture

I love the training, love the competition, and I still feel like I'm progressing and getting better as a fighter.

Rumi

Inside the Great Mystery that is, we don't really own anything. What is this competition we feel then, before we go, one at a time, through the same gate?

Robert Neelly Bellah

We have to treat others as part of who we are, rather than as a 'them' with whom we are in constant competition.

Thomas Sowell

The desire of businessmen for profits is what drives prices down unless forcibly prevented from engaging in price competition, usually by governmental activity.

Robert Barry

I have been in competitions for commissions. I've won most and lost some. Mostly, I've won.

Sophia Amoruso

The only thing I smoke is my competition

Rutherford B. Hayes

The unrestricted competition so commonly advocated does not leave us the survival of the fittest. The unscrupulous succeed best in accumulating wealth.

Viswanathan Anand

There are some aspects of work you need to keep working on and no matter what environment you are in. Continuous learning is very important. It's what I call 'competitive tension', which is about having a competition around.

Roger Mudd

And what it depends on, of course, is whether the story itself is worth the ethical compromise it requires and whether the competition is onto the story.

Roger Mudd

The networks found themselves having to compete for an increasingly Balkanized audience.

Roger Waters

I don't feel as if I'm in competition with myself; not at all.

Roger Waters

I'm in competition with myself and I'm losing.

Sam Walton

Control your expenses better than your competition. This is where you can always find the competitive advantage.

Rowan Atkinson

The Scarlet Pimpernel is the most over-rated human being since Judas Iscariot won the A.D.31 'Best Disciple' competition.

Tom Peters

The thing that keeps a business ahead of the competition is excellence in execution.

Usain Bolt

But anybody who steps into the lane beside you is the biggest competition because they made it to the finals.