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“A recession is very bad for publicly traded companies, but it's the best time for startups. When you have massive layoffs, there's more competition for available jobs, which means that an entrepreneur can hire freelancers at a lower cost.”

Mean Jobs Company Cost Entrepreneur Competition Available Massive Recessions Best Times Layoff

Author:Tim Ferriss

“Prison is a Socialist paradise where equality prevails, everything is supplied, and competition is eliminated.”

Prison Competition Paradise Socialist

Book:Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work

Source: Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work

“When two souls compose a single song, The muse fans Livid wrath before long.”

Long Two Soul Song Fans Competition Muse Wrath Two Souls

Book:The Complete Greek Tragedies: Euripides

Source: The Complete Greek Tragedies: Euripides

“I'm for each and against none.”

Competition

Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower

“Reggae, oh man. It's the ultimate music. The positivity. The musicality. The whole cultural expressionism of it. The danceability. Just the cool factor. The melody factor. Some of it comes from a religious place. If there were a competition of who makes the best religious music, it would definitely be the Rastafarian reggae.”

Ifs Men Whole Religious Ultimate Competition Positivity Factors Melody Rapper Reggae Fiasco Expressionism Reggae Music Musicality Rasta Religious Music

Author:Lupe Fiasco

“Potter is potter's enemy, and craftsman is craftsman's rival; tramp is jealous of tramp, and singer of singer.”

Enemy Competition Singers Jealous Rivals Potters Craftsman Tramps

Author:Hesiod

“A country's competitiveness starts not on the factory floor or in the engineering lab. It starts in the classroom.”

Country Competition Factories Classroom Engineering Labs Competitiveness

Book:I Gotta Tell You: Speeches of Lee Iacocca

Source: I Gotta Tell You: Speeches of Lee Iacocca

“I don't believe that competitions are important.”

Believe Important Competition Don't Believe

Author:Eddie Izzard

“Interleaf is very nice. I expect there to be a lot of competition for programs like that.”

Nice Program Competition Very Nice

Author:Bill Joy

“Take the competition seriously, but not yourself.”

Competition

Author:Richard Branson

“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.”

Ifs Knows Littles Would Be Earth Form Life Is Given Natural Argument Direct Competition Host Selection Confined Niche Natural Selection

Author:Paul Davies

“Unregulated competition is a naive metaphor for anarchy.”

Competition Metaphor Anarchy Naive

Book:The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense

Source: The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense

“Our attainments [in space] are a major element in the competition between the Soviet system and our own . . . . in this sense, [they] are part of the battle along the fluid front of the cold war.”

War Space Fronts Cold Walking Battle Moon Elements Majors Competition Soviet Cold War Fluid Attainment Star Gazing

Author:James E. Webb

“In recent years, perhaps encouraged by competition from McDonald's, the British hamburger has become a credit to the nation. At the time of which I speak, it looked like a scorched beer-coaster or a tenderized disc brake.”

Years Funny Speak Nations Humorous England Competition Credit British Beer Mcdonalds Hamburgers Coasters Brake Discs

Book:Always Unreliable: Memoirs

Source: Always Unreliable: Memoirs

“The idea of America's religious groups fighting over the limited public money to be made available takes us down the road towards the kind of sectarian competition that has torn so many nations apart, and which our separation of church and state has spared us.”

Kind Made Ideas States America Fighting Nations Church Religious Groups Competition Available Separation Torn Church And State Separation Of Church And State Down The Road Public Money

Author:David Saperstein

“Be wary of feeling as through there is not enough room at the table. Oftentimes a female Chinese-American might feel as through she is in competition with another Chinese-American woman writer of the same generation. A writer friend of mine calls it the "There Can Only Be One ..." syndrome. This isn't "Survivor." The more good writers, of all walks of life and all ethnicities and persuasions, the better.”

Feels Writing Enough Feelings Might Walks Rooms Generations Mines Female Tables Competition Chinese Survivor Persuasion Good Writers Ethnicity Syndromes American Woman Walks Of Life

Author:ZZ Packer

“Science really creates wealth and opportunity which did not exist before. Whereas the old order was based on competition, the new order of science makes possible, for the first time, a cooperative creative effort in which every one is the gainer and no one the loser.”

Firsts Order Opportunity Politics Wealth Effort Creative First Time Competition Loser Cooperatives

Author:Karl Taylor Compton

“Competition is what keeps me playing the psychological warfare of matching skill against skill and wit against wit.”

Skills Competition Wit Psychological Warfare Matching Psychological Warfare

Author:Lou Brock

“...even after you've just won the Super Bowl -- especially after you've just won the Super Bowl -- there's always next year. If Winning isn't everything; it's the only thing, then the only thing is nothing -- emptiness, the nightmare of life without ultimate meaning.”

Ifs Years Next Winning Ultimate Competition Emptiness Nightmare Bowls Next Year Super Bowl Winning Isn't Everything

Author:Tom Landry

“I never had a serious injury that kept me out of a big competition. Now everyone has injuries - to their feet or their knees or their backs.”

Bigs Feet Serious Competition Knees Injury

Book:Only with Passion: Figure Skating's Most Winning Champion on Competition and Life

Source: Only with Passion: Figure Skating's Most Winning Champion on Competition and Life

“More than 20 years on, sustained competition, informed customers and the rapid growth of new technology provide the necessary environment for substantial deregulation.”

Years Growth Technology Environment Competition Customers Rapids New Technology Deregulation Rapid Growth

Author:Stephen L. Carter

“I didn't want to become an actress because the competition with my mother would have been to much to live up to.”

Want Has Beens Mother Competition Actresses

Author:Isabella Rossellini

Way Years Two Different Games Sports Simple Levels Competition Sixteen Olympic Games Different Levels Simple Ways Sixteen Year Olds

Author:Olga Korbut

“Competition is an easy way to get into flow.”

Way Easy Flow Competition Easy Way

Author:Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

“My instinct is to assume that we consumers are an inconsistent bunch. We like competition if it delivers low prices, but grumble if it delivers the bad news that prices need to go up.”

Ifs Needs News Lows Competition Assuming Instinct Bunch Consumers Bad News Inconsistent

Author:Evan Davis

“Even though I enjoy that head-to-head competition part, one of the things that drove me to long track was if I won or if I lost I want to know it's all on my shoulders and it didn't have anything to do with anybody else.”

Ifs Knows Want Long Lost Enjoy Competition Track Shoulders

Author:Bonnie Blair

“I've run a lot of miles over the years, some fast and some not so fast. I've won some big races and I've had some big disappointments, but I enjoy the freedom of running and the challenge of training and competition as much now as when I first started back in high school.”

Years Firsts Bigs Running School Enjoy Challenges Race Training High School Competition Disappointment Miles

Author:Alberto Salazar

“I had 12 years of classical music as a child, playing piano competitions as a teenager, playing in blues bands and rock 'n' roll bands, country and jazz bands. I played in about any situation.”

Years Children Country Situation Rocks Band Competition Jazz Teenager Piano Rock N Roll Classical Music Children Playing Playing Piano Jazz Band

Author:Ronnie Milsap

“I'm a football fan, a sports fan, a fan of competition.”

Sports Fans Football Competition Football Fan Sports Fan

Author:Matthew McConaughey

“I get nervous for any competition. I also get really competitive.”

Competition Nervous Get Real

Author:Morena Baccarin

“When I was training, I trained with my younger brother Brady. I would wrestle some of my friends, who I had grown up with, which showed me some moves, but it was never a full on match. When I went to competitions, there were other girls, so I always wrestled girls.”

Moving Girl Brother Training My Friends Competition Other Girl Younger Brother Brady Young Brother

Author:Jaimie Alexander

“Financial transaction tax raises problems of competition.”

Problem Taxes Raises Competition Financial Transactions

Author:Jose Manuel Barroso

“I don't see myself as competing with other actresses. I mean, I went through a time when I was in New York, and I was going to lots of auditions and trying to get parts, but even then, you're not really competing with the other actresses. There is a competition going on, but it's not like something you can win in that way.”

Way Trying Mean Winning New York Competition Actresses Auditions Competing Like Something You Can Win

Author:Annette Bening

“I think the touchstone is to give consumers a full, fair choice without the power of a monopoly operating system pushing them in a direction that free competition might or might not achieve.”

Thinking Giving Might Choices Achieve Fairs Competition Consumers Pushing Monopoly Touchstones Operating Systems

Author:James L. Barksdale

“Guys aren't threatening. Other girls are the competition. You are usually what they're fighting over.”

Guy Girl Fighting Competition Threatening Other Girl

Author:Jonathan Bennett

“Professional competitions are overrated.”

Sports Competition Overrated

Author:Oksana Baiul

“I was never going to give Mariah Carey any competition.”

Giving Competition

Author:Victoria Beckham

“I got lucky. I won the San Francisco Stand-Up Comedy Competition in 1977 while I was still at San Francisco State.”

Stills States Comedy Lucky Competition San Francisco Stand Up Comedy

Author:Dana Carvey

“I think exercise tests us in so many ways, our skills, our hearts, our ability to bounce back after setbacks. This is the inner beauty of sports and competition, and it can serve us all well as adult athletes.”

“The reality is, is that we love competition, at Apple. We think it makes us all better. But we want people to invent their own stuff.”

People Thinking Want Reality Stuff Competition Apples

Author:Tim Cook

“The problem with TV now is that there's so much competition, that you're always on the chopping block.”

Problem Tvs Competition Block Chopping

Author:Elisha Cuthbert

“I don't think that the Pulitzer should be given the way it is. I think the competition should be anonymous. I think completely different people would win it if the names were taken off because a lot of it is done on relationships and names.”

People Ifs Thinking Way Should Different Done Winning Names Given Taken Competition Different Peoples

Author:John Corigliano

“The fans love the home runs, the home run competition between Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa.”

Home Running Fans Mark Competition Home Run

Author:Jose Canseco

“I've always wanted to appear in a 3-D Movie, that's always been a goal of mine. If you appear in a 3-D picture you are a shoo-in for an Oscar. There's no competition.”

Ifs Wanted Goal Mines Competition Oscars

Author:Nikki Cox

“Small- and medium-sized businesses need access to a diverse range of finance options, including non-bank lending. These new forms of finance are still small in scale today but they should, over time, bring additional choice and greater competition to the lending market.”

Needs Should Stills Today Form Choices Greater Competition Including Access Scales Mediums Finance Range Diverse Lending

Author:Vince Cable

“These are very difficult times for new artists. Back in the day, a hit song could really seep into a person's DNA with radio and MTV. A hit today is not the same as a hit twenty years ago. Now there is so much competition, it is very hard to reach the people. The music scene is so overly saturated. There are no gatekeepers like there used to be.”

People Years Persons Hard Today Used Artist Song Difficult Scene Years Ago Twenties Competition Radio Used To Be Dna Difficult Times Mtv Back In The Day Saturated Gatekeepers New Artists

Author:Vivian Campbell

“I was very good in math and physics. In the Soviet time, we had a lot of Olympic-style competitions for different disciplines: I was always winning in my region.”

Different Winning Style Discipline Competition Very Good Math Physics Regions Soviet

Author:Oleg Deripaska

“I am not in competition with my peers; I am in competition with myself.”

Competition Peers

Author:Don Dokken

“The time has come for the American government to recognize the damage that has occurred to our economy, and to take firm action to curtail what I believe is both unfair and illegal foreign competition.”

Believe Government Action I Believe Economy Competition Firm Damage Illegal Unfair American Government

Author:Norm Dicks

“Some days the competition would beat me and I'd go home thinking awful thoughts, want to hide under the bed, depressed. But of course, in the news business, when you're working a daily news broadcast, you get your victories and defeats every day.”

Thinking Want Home Courses Victory Bed News Beats Competition Defeat Awful Victory And Defeat Daily News

Author:Sam Donaldson

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