Competition Quotes

When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.

Enlightened business is learning that competition ought not to cause bad social consequences which inevitably react upon the profits of business itself.

Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off

What is wrong in the world today is that the nations of the world are engaged in a bitter, colossal contest for supremacy.

If my edge is dull, my sword is dull, and I don't want to fight another guy whose sword is dull. If you've got two steel swords going back and forth hitting each other, what's gonna happen? Both of them are going to get sharper. Everybody that's in the industry has lost their edge.

I don't worry about new young bands. The bounty of life is infinite and so is music and so are opportunities.

There's nobody in the business strong enough to scare me.

I'm often reading a magazine and hearing about someone's new record, and I think, 'Oh, boy, that's gonna be better than me.' It's a very common thing.

I started singing about three years ago, I entered a local singing competition called Stratford Idol. The other people in the competition had been taking singing lessons and had vocal coaches. I wasn't taking it too seriously at the time, I would just sing around the house. I was only 12 and I got second place.

I'm not in competition with anybody but myself. My goal is to beat my last performance.

The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together.

In short, competition has to shoulder the responsibility of explaining all the meaningless ideas of the economists, whereas it should rather be the economists who explain competition.

I think it inevitably follows, that as new species in the course of time are formed through natural selection, others will become rarer and rarer, and finally extinct. The forms which stand in closest competition with those undergoing modification and improvement will naturally suffer most.

In the long run, your human capital is your main base of competition. Your leading indicator of where you're going to be 20 years from now is how well you're doing in your education system.

If you don't cannibalize yourself, someone else will.

Ad campaigns are necessary for competition. But good PR educates people; that's all it is.

You can't look at the competition and say you're going to do it better. You have to look at the competition and say you're going to do it differently.

Continued innovation is the best way to beat the competition.

I think the positive competition between states in India is one of the most positive dynamics that the country has.

If you have 50 different plug types, appliances wouldn't be available and would be very expensive. But once an electric outlet becomes standardized, many companies can design appliances, and competition ensues, creating variety and better prices for consumers.