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Competition Quotes
"Airlines go in the long run at the competition to reason. For the passenger the competition is good, because each competitor tries to undercut the other one."
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"Why can't DFW compete like San Francisco does with Oakland, like Miami does with Fort Lauderdale, and like Chicago O'Hare does with Midway?"
40
"At the end of the competition, I played the Liszt concerto and I felt my head was on the block. Well, I won."
39
"That's what really makes great skating competitions. When you have two top skaters in good form giving superb performances."
39
"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."
39
"You may call me a Klansman if you will, but, potentially, every white man is a Klansman, as far as the Negro in competition with whites socially, economically and politically is concerned, and there is no use lying."
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"If you're not making mistakes, you're not taking risks, and that means you're not going anywhere. The key is to make mistakes faster than the competition, so you have more changes to learn and win."
39
"We all fight for money, some for power, but most of all for love. But me, I fight to become a champion."
39
"Good will is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy."
38
"Interleaf is very nice. I expect there to be a lot of competition for programs like that."
38
"The object of this competition is not to be mean to the losers but to find a winner. The process makes you mean because you get frustrated."
38
"I long for the days when grosses were not even known. There was no weekend competition."
37
"There are 20 million unemployed and what does the Constitution offer us in the Europe of 25, 27 and soon to be 30: policies of unrestricted competition to the detriment of production, wages, research and innovation."
37
"I don't have a sense of entitlement or that I deserve this. You'd be surprised at the lack of competition between nominees - I think a lot of it's imposed from the outside. Can I have my champagne now?"
37
"The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself."
36
"I'm in competition with myself and I'm losing."
36
"The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living."
36
"I kinda see everyone as competition. I'm a very competitive person. But I think that's good. Competition is great. And as long as it's friendly and not a malicious thing, then I think it's cool."
36
"We've outpaced Japan and Europe in creating new jobs, but there's major competition from India and China. It's not enough to make income tax cuts permanent."
36
"Reference to the territory and total disregard for the nationality of the companies is of course the best guarantee that competition assessment remain just that and doesn't get affected by trade or other considerations."
36
"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."
35
"I'm a free market person, a free trader. But if we had a market in California, there would be competition."
35
"They demanded a monopoly of the coasting trade, in order to get higher freights than they could get in open competition with the carriers of the world."
35
"Deep inside, I was hoping I'd win: The competition was tough, but I learned from other's mistakes."
35
"I should have been a much better artist if I could have studied more and amused myself less."
35
"They gave me away as a prize once - a Win Tony Curtis For A Weekend competition. The woman who won was disappointed. She'd hoped for second prize - a new stove."
34
"Hence we did not foster competition in our school, on the contrary."
34
"We see ourselves as first helping to open up markets to competition."
34
"I'm a different person off the court than I am on the court, where I'm very competitive, a perfectionist, and I can be hard on myself sometimes. Off the court, nothing really bothers me. I'm easy-going."
34
"I think competition is very important; it breeds many good things in a person."
34
"Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition - in having put forth the best within you."
32
"Well, I think any national championship is an extremely important championship to play in."
31
"I started singing at the Met when I was seven, and the competition was so fierce that it really prepared me."
31
"Indeed, we must foster cost-saving competition. And that means joining the marketplace of other industrialized countries - not just for the manufacturers who sell drugs, but for consumers as well."
31
"The only thing that's changed is the competitiveness of the series. It's only become harder to win in our series as the years have gone by. Competition breeds good things, and that's what's happened here."
30
"It's the only way we can lose, irrespective of the result."
30
"Reality is a genre that seems to be here to stay. I don't know how many of the new shows will last, but the more competition you have, the harder that pie is to slice up."
29
"What was the competition? Well, I remember this Puerto Rican who came out in a short skirt and a gun."
29
"Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy."
28
"I love the Olympics, because they enable people from all over the world to come together and--regardless of their political or cultural differences--accuse each other of cheating."
28
"We are on pace this year to have a trade deficit that is larger than $800 billion. We have never faced that before, but we continue to put forward trade agreements like these that leave us naked to competition that is neither free nor fair."
28
"Our two biggest rivals had adjusted their whole season to this one aim of beating us. Of course, it is a big compliment that they were so motivated to stop us but it was very tough to face two matches like that so close together. Suddenly three trophies are down to one."
27
"There's always risk. But I'm going to come in and play hard. I want to come in and contribute."
26
"They will come to learn in the end, at their own expense, that it is better to endure competition for rich customers than to be invested with monopoly over impoverished customers."
25
"Men are born for games. Nothing else. Every child knows that play is nobler than work. He knows too that the worth or merit of a game is not inherent in the game itself but rather in the value of that which is put at hazard. Games of chance require a wager to have meaning at all. Games of sport involve the skill and strength of the opponents and the humiliation of defeat and the pride of victory are in themselves sufficient stake because they inhere in the worth of the principals and define them. But the trial of chance or trial of worth all games aspire to the condition of war for here that which is wagered swallows up game, player, all."
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