“Vanity, fear, desire, competition - all such distortions within our own egos - condition our vision of those in relation to us. Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other.” LooksDesireVisionConditionsEgoRelationAddCompetitionGlassesVanityDistortionCorrespondingCloudy Book:The Selected Letters of Tennessee Williams Volume II: 1945-1957 Source: The Selected Letters of Tennessee Williams Volume II: 1945-1957
“It is in vain for us to devise schemes by which competition can be put out of civilized life. Competition is the condition of life.” ConditionsCompetitionVainCivilizedSchemes Book:The Life that Really is Source: The Life that Really is
“The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.” ChangeCompanyVisionSuccessfulConditionsRemainsCompetitionLandscapeStrategicAlteredSuccessful CompanyStrategic Vision Author:Ralph Abernathy
“Law of the Minimum: "The worst potential competition for any organism can come from its own kind. The species consumes necessities. Growth is limited by that necessity which is present in the least amount. The least favourable condition controls the rate of growth."” KindLawGrowthWorstConditionsAmountCompetitionSpeciesRateMinimumOrganisms Author:Frank Herbert
“In the LBO field there is a buried "covariance" with marketable equities, toward disaster in generally bad business conditions, and competition is now extremely intense.” ConditionsFieldsCompetitionDisasterIntenseBuriedEquityBad Business Author:Charlie Munger