C Quotes
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“Competition is very good... as long as its healthy. It's what makes one strive to be better.”
“Competition is warfare. Mostly it is played by prescribed rules--there is a sort of Geneva Convention for competition--but it's thorough and often brutal.”
“Competition is what keeps me playing the psychological warfare of matching skill against skill and wit against wit.”
“Competition is. In every business, no matter how small or how large, someone is just around the corner forever trying to steal your ideas and build his success out of your imagination, struggling after that which you have toiled endless years to secure, striving to outdo you in each and every way. If such a competitor would work as hard to originate as he does to copy, he would much more quickly gain success.”
“Competition leads both drug companies and private regulators to be trustworthy. If they are not trustworthy, they die.”
“Competition makes things come out right. Well, what does that mean in health care? More hospitals so they compete with each other. More doctors compete with each other. More pharmaceutical companies. We set up war. Wait a minute, let's talk about the patient. The patient doesn't need a war.”
“Competition makes you better, always, always makes you better, even if the competitor wins.”
“Competition may help us create better products and services but in the end competition really seeks to destroy the opponent. To put him out of the power to compete against you.”
Source: The Great Pearl of Wisdom
“Competition means decentralized planning by many separate persons.”
“Competition, no matter how friendly, dampens one and brightens the other, tears for one, smiles for the other yet we all want peace, why compete?”
Source: One Are We: war and peace
“Competition of praise inclineth to a reverence of antiquity. For men contend with the living, not with the dead.”
Source: Leviathan
“Competition on anything is good, because it makes everybody better.”
“Competition on the market aims at assigning to every individual that function in the social system in which he can render to all his fellow men the most valuable of the services he is able to perform.”
“Competition only exists in your head, not in the marketplace.”
“Competition permits the capitalist to deduct from the price of labour power that which the family earns from its own little garden or field; the workers are compelled to accept any piece wages offered to them, because otherwise they would get nothing at all, and they could not live from the products of their small-scale agriculture alone, and because, on the other hand, it is just this agriculture and landownership which chains them to the spot and prevents them from looking around for other employment.”
“Competition pushes me to improve. If I see someone do a big trick, I try it.”
“Competition should not be for a share of the market-but to expand the market.”
“Competition validates you. It creates a category. It permits the sale to be this or that, not yes or no.”
“Competition was as much as respecting your opponent's work as introspecting on your own.”
Source: Truly, Madly, Deeply!: Memoirs of a Broken Heart's First Love!
“Competition with others makes u ORDINARY; but competition with yourself makes u ORIGINAL.”
“Competition works best in sports, but humans get addicted to stuff.”
Source: Killosophy
“Competition's always been a product of American lifestyle”
“Competition, founded upon the conflicting interests of individuals, is in reality far less productive of wealth and enterprise than co-operation, involving though it does the constant apparent sacrifice of the individual to the common interests.”
“Competition, free enterprise, and an open market were never meant to be symbolic fig leaves for corporate socialism and monopolistic capitalism.”
“Competition, of course there's always competition, and I like competition.”
“Competition, which is the instinct of selfishness, is another word for dissipation of energy, while combination is the secret of efficient production.”
Source: Looking Backward: From 2000 to 1887
“Competition-ruthless, unforgiving, to-the-death competition-is a crucial feature of capitalism.”
Source: Economics for everyone: a short guide to the economics of capitalism
“Competitions are for horses, not artists.”
“Competitions are what you do as a good exercise.”
“Competitive advantage is a companys ability to perform in one or more ways that competitors cannot or will not match.”
Source: Marketing Management
“Competitive drills enhance quickness.”
“Competitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course... the space between your ears.”
“Competitive individualism militates against the experience of community, and that lack of community is a centrally important factor in contemporaneous anxiety.”
Source: The Meaning Of Anxiety
“Competitive skills are desperately needed by poor children in America, and realistic recognition of the economic roles that they may someday have an opportunity to fill is obviously important, too. But there is more to life, and there ought to be much more to childhood, than readiness for economic functions.”
“Competitive spirit is still at a premium. The more you win, the better you play, the more money you make, so they all have that in mind.”
“Competitive sports can bring out the best in people. Instead of playing small, they overcome their self-doubts and fears. They let their light shine. They find courage, which is the opposite of discourage, and tap into their reservoir of potential. Reflect a moment. Can you remember a time when you were a hero, when you showed heart, courage, and fearlessness that maybe you didn’t think you had?”
Source: Mind Gym: An Athlete's Guide to Inner Excellence
“Competitive strategy is about being different. It means deliberately choosing a different set of activities to deliver a unique mix of value.”
Source: Leadership, Strategy, and Innovation: Health Care Collection (8 Items)
“Competitive toughness is an acquired skill and not an inherited gift.”
“Competitive victimhood can both encourage and limit the spread of victimhood culture. It may lead the clash between dignity and victimhood to transform into a clash between competing victimization narratives, or it may cause the victimhood revolution to devour its own, eventually burning itself out.”
Source: The Rise of Victimhood Culture: Microaggressions, Safe Spaces, and the New Culture Wars
“Competitiveness always rests on the assumption of a life-and-death struggle.”
Source: Approaching Zion
“Competitiveness demands flexibility, choice and openness - or Europe will fetch up in a no-man's land between the rising economies of Asia and market-driven North America.”
“Competitiveness drives my blood. I'm an athlete at heart and I just love the competition. I can't live without it. It's just a rush.”
“Competitiveness has been a big thing for me.”
“Competitiveness is a personality thing and competitive people don't become pushovers the day they turn fifty.”
“Competitiveness is defined as the ability of companies to compete while maintaining or improving the average standard of living. If you are cutting wages to become more competitive, that's not really more competitive. It's raising the skill and the efficiency of those workers so that they can support and sustain that higher wage.”
“Competitiveness is just as much a part of our nature as empathy. The ideal, in my view, is a democratic system with a social market economy, because it takes both tendencies into account.”
“Competitiveness is really what it costs you per man-hour to get you what you want. In other words, there's an education level that plays into the mix and so if it's inexpensive to buy an hour of real good education in places like China versus the U.S., that factors in.”
“COMPETITOR is one who can steal a few deals, but, the pinch of which, A VISIONARY Never feels...!”
“Compile your to-do list for tomorrow no later than this evening.”
“Compilers resemble gluttonous eaters who devour excessive quantities of healthy food just to excrete them as refuse.”