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Competition Quotes
"Europe should stick to an open economy, to competition and we should refuse protectionism. It will not save one single job in the long run to protect non-competitive industries."
7
"Running became boring because it's so predictable. I got to a point where I knew what my competition could do."
7
"It was a natural process, because when we go to the ring we are human beings, but once you feel the punches and the competition that's when the beast comes out and takes hold of us."
5
"Look at the way teams play against Arsenal. They don't believe they can win. They don't believe."
5
"It's a tough world out there and all the guys are fighting hard and the competition is really tough."
5
"The stark reality facing us today is that without the labour reforms, workers will get neither the income nor jobs in the face of cut-throat global economic competition."
5
"We had a great group of guys when I was there, five of us, I think. It's a great competition. Every practice was hard. I think that's helped us a lot, everybody that was there."
4
"The Olympics are always a special competition, it is very difficult to predict what will happen."
4
"Whenever the competition is sleeping is when I shine."
3
"Because up to sixteen years old you feel gymnastics more. You can show your emotion, grace, like woman gymnastics, not kid's gymnastics. I feel I have good shape, and I can do it elements everything, but, it's not competition for me."
1
"There's fierce competition between all the networks to get the guest who can bring the most pertinent information about whatever the story of the moment happens to be."
1
"I think it is absolutely essential in a democracy to have competition in the media, a lot of competition, and we seem to be moving away from that."
1
"Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals."
1
"I don't look at it like that's my rival and I have to beat her. It's more like, I have to ski this as fast as I can and the fastest of everyone out here and that's what I expect."
"At the end of the competition, I played the Liszt concerto and I felt my head was on the block. Well, I won."
"And what it depends on, of course, is whether the story itself is worth the ethical compromise it requires and whether the competition is onto the story."
"Whenever you face a man who's playing your instrument, there's a competition."
"When I broke in, in 1957, it was wide open. Now you're up against strong competition."
"I got a hundred bucks says my baby beats Pete's baby. I just think genetics are in my favour."
"I long for the days when grosses were not even known. There was no weekend competition."
"Rising amateurs always intimidate falling masters."
"Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy."
"The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself."
"The Beatles had just come out, and everybody had a band. It was incredible competition out there."
"No more pronouncements on lousy verse. No more hidden competition. No more struggling not to be a square."
"The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time."
"Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition - in having put forth the best within you."
"Good will is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy."
"The Olympic Games is the ultimate level of competition."
"I'm a free market person, a free trader. But if we had a market in California, there would be competition."
"The capitalists speculate on the two following factors: the female worker must be paid as poorly as possible and the competition of female labour must be employed to lower the wages of male workers as much as possible."
"I mean, the competition is really created by the buzz around the Emmys. It's a totally subjective thing."
"A lot of it had to do with when it's released and what's out in the marketplace, what's its competition."
"Interleaf is very nice. I expect there to be a lot of competition for programs like that."
"That's what really makes great skating competitions. When you have two top skaters in good form giving superb performances."
"Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes."
"Our employers today face numerous challenges and stiff competition from businesses all over the world."
"I think it's really important to look at the big picture instead of just one competition."
"France has a very important relationship with Germany. But that does not mean that we agree about everything or that two of our universities or companies are not going to compete."
"The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell."
"I think I tried to separate indoors and out. And so when he beat me indoors, I did not see that as letting anybody down, I saw it as a good head to head competition, and so it was. It was fine."
"Our role is to maintain and monitor a framework in which fair competition can flourish."
"Competition is very good... as long as its healthy. It's what makes one strive to be better."
"We can only win by giving everything and being ready to defeat the adversary with fiery aggression."
"There are many examples in high schools which show something about the effects such competition might have."
"And I've always - the competition is one aspect of the job, but I think if you're too busy worrying about the competition, you don't focus enough on what you're doing."
"Because we're sponsored by competing breweries there is always competition. When we were both fighting for ninth or 10th place, nobody really cared except the two companies."
"Competition is the final price determinant and competitive prices may result in profits which force you to accept a rate of return less than you hoped for, or for that matter to accept temporary losses."
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