Famous Quotes & Sayings

Adam Smith

That a joint stock company should be able to carry on successfully any branch of foreign trade, when private adventurers can come into any sort of open and fair competition with them, seems contrary to all experience.

Adam Smith

In general, if any branch of trade, or any division of labour, be advantageous to the public, the freer and more general the competition, it will always be the more so.

Adam Gilchrist

Whilst there's a competition still on we're still a chance,

Fantasia Barrino

I've never been in a competition before, and I said I'm going to go. I think - I just love to sing.

Amish Tripathi

I don't think I'm any competition to the already-existing canon of writers in Kannada. How can I ever even think of comparing myself?

Bill Rancic

Kitchen competition shows are so action-packed. They just get your adrenaline pumping.

Bill Rancic

I'm hooked on food competition shows. It's unique, different... I definitely understand the importance of strategy.

Anna Jameson

The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Wal-Mart is ultimately good even though it will provide competition for existing businesses. But competition isn't always bad. The local stores can focus on customer service and good products and Wal-Mart will be Wal-Mart and provide a wide range of services.

Bipasha Basu

An unforgettable experience happened on December 15, 1996 when I won the Supermodel contest while still in school. I was just seventeen years old then. Winning that competition was the turning point of my life. That's how I got into modeling and later started acting.

Tough non-district competition is what we need to play better and become more focused. When you dress out only 7 seniors, you've got to be ready to step up to the plate, regardless of the opposition.

Traditionally, we haven't scored very well in the region, but a lot of times in the past we were so much better than the competition that it didn't matter. This year, we're not as good, and the competition is better. Hopefully, with those two things, we'll get fired up and shoot a good score.

Elizabeth Gillies

In middle school, I was boy crazy and it was the worst! I would always lose, too. I was more into the competition than the boy by the end of it! I just wanted to win!

Carine Roitfeld

You can't put yourself into competition with a magazine like 'Vogue.' You have to create something new, something different.

Chris Moneymaker

The competition has improved tremendously. In 2003, I could teach a guy how to play poker in an hour and he could win some money. Today, it would take days. The game has gotten so much tougher. So I will spend my time with my family and play when I can.

We play each other for a reason. We need this kind of competition to get ready for district. They need to get ready for the playoffs.

We pretty much know who our competition is, and what to expect.

Sunil Mittal

All competitors are fierce competitors; Vodafone is the world's second largest company. We fight it each day. Idea Cellular is big and successful, too. Competition is competition; we are used to it.

Virginia Postrel

Traditional PCs face competition from specialty products like Palm Pilots and from the servers that provide the nodes in computer networks. Microsoft's Windows CE hasn't done too well in the specialty-device market, and its Windows NT faces strong competition for server customers.

I think we've gotten to the point where we're going to have competition in the organization.

Sigi Schmid

I think we've created a much more competitive environment. There is competition in all of the facets of the field.

Incumbents don't like it, but political competition is a good thing. Incumbents usually outspend challengers by better than 3 to 1. Super PACs, which tend to support challengers, have nullified some of this advantage.

George Soros

Unrestrained competition can drive people into actions that they would otherwise regret.

George Karl

The truth of basketball is done in competition and fundamentals and team, but there's a lot of other junk that goes around the game.

When you have 31 guys out for the team there's a lot of competition because everyone wants to be in the top seven.

Jeff Lewis

We've got the talent ... but we're still young and we're still learning. I figure in another couple of weeks, we'll be swinging pretty good. We just need more experience in competition and more hard work.

With our technology, I am convinced that we will be quite advantageous in cost competition.

Without that regular competition in a week, it's hard to estimate what it's going to take for 32 minutes. We didn't give a 32-minute effort. We'll go back to work.

Tim Finchem

With the conclusion of the FedEx Cup competition at The Tour Championship the week September 10-16, we felt that the competitors could use an extra week to rest and be fully prepared for The Presidents Cup.

We will keep everything the same but the intensity will step up a little bit. We have done a good job focusing on our competition and scoring runs. With Maryland and the rest of the ACC competition the rest of the way out, we will have to step up a little bit.

We will be very strong in some areas, but we need to stay healthy in order to be competitive. Our girls work very hard we are expecting some great competition this year.

We've played some good competition this season. Our schedule has not been easy. But that should make us stronger for the playoffs.

Ernest Istook

We've outpaced Japan and Europe in creating new jobs, but there's major competition from India and China. It's not enough to make income tax cuts permanent.