“If every other store in town is paying workers $9 an hour, one offering $8 will find it hard to hire anyone - perhaps not when unemployment is high, but certainly in normal times. Robust competition is a powerful force helping to ensure that workers are paid what they contribute to their employers' bottom lines.” IfsHardHelpingForceHoursLinesPowerfulNormalPaidTownsCompetitionWorkersBottomStoresOfferingUnemploymentEmployersBottom LineRobust Author:Christina Romer
“I think that's why I play tennis, because of the challenge, because of the competition, .. That's why we love to play tiebreaker in the third set. It makes it more exciting, and the bigger support in the stand, and more fans involved in it. I really enjoyed the competition and took a lot of hard work to make myself No. 1 at 18 years old.” ThinkingYearsHardPlayChallengesSupportFansHard WorkInvolvedThirdsBiggerExcitingCompetitionEnjoyedTennis Author:Maria Sharapova
“Nowadays young people have great choice of occupations, hobbies, etc, so chess is experiencing difficulties because of the high competition. Now it's hard to make living in chess, so our profession does attract young people.” PeopleDoeHardYoungChoicesDifficultyCompetitionProfessionChessEtcOccupationHobbies Author:Boris Spassky
“I myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself. When Anne Sexton admonished me, "We are all writing God's poem," I took it to mean there should be no competition between writers because we are all involved in a common project, a common prayer. But to Gore's and Norman's generation, particularly those male writers who served in the second world war, the prizefighter paradigm remains.” WorldShouldWritingMeanWarHardHatePrayerCommonGenerationsInvolvedProjectsRemainsCompetitionMalesWar Of The WorldsParadigmGoreSecond World WarSelf Hate Author:Erica Jong
“Life on earth is hard. Competition for the necessities of life is fierce. How ridiculous to believe that the law of harsh survival would not be true elsewhere, or that it would be negated by the progress of technology in an advanced civilization.” BelieveHardWould BeEarthLawLife IsTechnologyProgressCivilizationSurvivalCompetitionRidiculousBeing TrueElsewhereFierceHarshAdvanced Civilization Book:The Forge of God Source: The Forge of God
“Just for the record, I'm in favor of drug testing EVERY year just as long as it's a level playing field. The problem arises that a lot of these substances are hard to detect. So, it's very difficult to have true, drug-free bodybuilding competition, especially on the professional level.” YearsLongHardProblemDifficultLevelsRecordsFieldsDrugCompetitionFavorsAriseSubstanceTestingBodybuildingPlaying FieldsLevel Playing FieldDrug FreeDrug Testing Author:Lee Labrada
“The ultimate consequences of the individualist spirit in economic life are those which you yourselves, Venerable Brethren and Beloved Children, see and deplore: Free competition has destroyed itself; economic dictatorship has supplanted the free market; unbridled ambition for power has likewise succeeded greed for gain; all economic life has become tragically hard, inexorable, and cruel.” ChildrenHardSpiritPoliticsEconomyEconomicAmbitionConsequenceGainsUltimateCompetitionGreedDestroyedBelovedLiberalismDictatorshipFree MarketBrethrenInexorable Book:On reconstructing the social order: (Quadragesimo anno) Source: On reconstructing the social order: (Quadragesimo anno)