Quotes about Competition
We did not enter the search business. Google entered the phone business. Make no mistake they want to kill the iPhone. We won't let them.
— Steve Jobs
Make no mistake, I always want to win, but I never fight with an opponent. My fight is within me it is the struggle to be the best I can be at whatever I do.
— John Wooden
We play a sport. It's a game. At the end of the day, that's all it is, is a game. It doesn't make you any better or any worse than anybody else. So by winning a game, you're no better. By losing a game, you're no worse. I think by keeping that mentality, it really keeps things in perspective for me to treat everybody the same.
— Tim Tebow
Today the logic goes something like this: 'Calling a ruler Son of God is out of style. No one really does that nowadays. We can support a president while also worshiping Jesus as the Son of God.' But how is this possible? For one says that we must love our enemies, and the other says we must kill them; one promotes the economics of competition, while the other admonishes the forgiveness of debts. To which do we pledge allegiance?
— Shane Claiborne
The challenge when you think about product distribution is: how are you competing for potential customers or potential members time?
— Reid Hoffman
A free economy cannot exist without competition. Therefore, men must be forced to compete. Therefore, we must control men in order to force them to be free.
— Ayn Rand
If the rest of them can survive only by destroying us, then why should we wish them to survive?
— Ayn Rand
This came as a strange letdown, to see how the game always went to those who knew the rules without understanding the lesson.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Obviously other ones did exist such as basketball, but not in Lee County. Any sport that's not football around here is like vanilla. Why even eat that, if they've invented flavors.
— Barbara Kingsolver
When we are dependent on the person with whom we are in conflict, both need and conflict are compounded. Love-hate over-reactions, fight-or-flight tendencies, withdrawal, aggressiveness, bitterness, resentment, and cold competition are some of the usual results. When these occur, we tend to fall even further back on background tendencies and habits in an effort to justify and defend our own behavior and we attack our spouse's. Inevitably, anytime we are too vulnerable we feel the need
— Stephen Covey
Wouldn't it be a beautiful world if just 10 percent of the people who believe in the power of love would compete with one another to see who could do the most good for the most people?
— Muhammad Ali
When superiors are fond of showing their humanity, inferiors try to outstrip one another in their practice of it.
— Confucius