Quotes
Quotes about Competition
My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.
And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.
The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the ;face of social change.
My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.
Competition brings out the best in products and the worst in people.
Competition is a process or variety of habitual behavior that grows out of a habit of mind.
Besides winning, [the most fun thing is] getting out there and mixing it up with friends; it's the competition.
Competition is the whetstone of talent.
Race, what is that? Race is a competition, somebody winning and somebody losing. . . . Blood doesn't run in races! Come on!
Like many businessmen of genius he learned that free competition was wasteful, monopoly efficient. And so he simply set about achieving that efficient monopoly.
In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running; if you stand still, they will swallow you.
Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competitionâ in having put forth the best within you
The biggest things are always the easiest to do because there is no competition.
Of all human powers operating on the affairs of mankind, none is greater than that of competition.
Those fighting for free enterprise and free competition do not defend the interests of those rich today. They want a free hand left to unknown men who will be the entrepreneurs of tomorrow...
Competition on the market aims at assigning to every individual that function in the social system in which he can render to all his fellow men the most valuable of the services he is able to perform.
The truth is that economic competition is the very opposite of competition in the animal kingdom. It is not a competition in the grabbing off of scarce nature-given supplies, as it is in the animal kingdom. Rather, it is a competition in the positive creation of new and additional wealth.
The desire of businessmen for profits is what drives prices down unless forcibly prevented from engaging in price competition, usually by governmental activity.
When we are in competition with ourselves, and match our todays against our yesterdays, we derive encouragement from past misfortunes and blemishes. Moreover, the competition with ourselves leaves unimpaired our benevolence toward our fellow men.
Whoever claims that economic competition represents 'survival of the fittest' in the sense of the law of the jungle, provides the clearest possible evidence of his lack of knowledge of economics.
Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.
I believe in courtesy, in kindness, in generosity, in good cheer, in friendship and in honest competition. I believe there is something doing somewhere, for every man ready to do it. I believe I'm ready, RIGHT NOW.
There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there.
The world men inhabit is rather bleak. It is a world full of doubt and confusion, where vulnerability must be hidden, not shared; where competition, not co-operation, is the order of the day; where men sacrifice the possibility of knowing their own children and sharing in their upbringing, for the sake of a job they may have chosen by chance, which may not suit them and which in many cases dominates their lives to the exclusion of much else.
Don't steal. The government hates competition.
