Quotes about Rivalry
As I look back on that period now, I realize I had split the company in half, setting up two factions which began to compete fiercely with one another. There was the old guard, including many of the store managers, remaining loyal to Ferold, and the new guard, many of whom owed their jobs to Ron. Pretty soon, everybody began to take sides, lining up behind either Ron or Ferold, who didn't get along at all.
— Sam Walton
The cankered passion of envy is nothing akin to the silly envy of the ass.L'Estrange,Fab.xxxviii.
— Samuel Johnson
Republicans are completely befuddled by Obama's 'star power' and don't seem to have a clear or effective strategy to compete.
— Simon Sinek
Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.
— Winston Churchill
Envy expresses itself through condemnation. The louder the condemnation the greater the envy.
— Marty Rubin
The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes. He has left them in the full enjoyment of their liberal positions, and he is himself a strict conservative of their garments.
— Benjamin Disraeli
It is a most miserable lot to be without an enemy. [No man can be successful without being envied and hated.]
— Publilius Syrus
It's amazing I won. I was running against peace, prosperity, and incumbency.
— George W. Bush
The moment we glorify ourselves, since there is room for one glory only in the universe, we set ourselves up as rivals to the Most High.
— Charles Spurgeon