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Competition Quotes
"Our employers today face numerous challenges and stiff competition from businesses all over the world."
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"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."
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"We can only win by giving everything and being ready to defeat the adversary with fiery aggression."
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"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."
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"The tension between centrality, on the one hand, and competition, on the other, is probably the oldest of all market structure issues."
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"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."
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"Most of the competition was into bulk popcorn because of the major increases in the Drive-In Theatre Outlets."
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"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."
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"So the competition isn't once you got the license, running the station; it's getting the license."
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"While no one railroad can completely duplicate another line, two or more may compete at particular points."
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"I've never felt any sense of competition with anybody, and we're all friends; we're all good friends."
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"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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"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."
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"Now a movie goes out to two, three thousand theaters and by Friday night at 10 o'clock they know if you are in or out. That desperate competition is, I think, horrendous. It's awful."
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"We humans have millions of years of evolutionary baggage that makes us regard competition in a deadly light."
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"The whole competition thing disturbs me. Not that I wasn't a part of it when I first started."
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"I remember Mick Jagger asking me 'hey, how do you guys feel about us coming over here and taking all the play from you guys?' I said 'Well, in a way, you have eliminated all my competition."
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"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."
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"There are many examples in high schools which show something about the effects such competition might have."
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"One of my major competitors was Harold Smith. Smith beat me in 1977. I was loafing during that competition."
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"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."
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"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."
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"I think we all have had better days in competition."
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"Value is consequently the necessary theoretical starting point whence we can elucidate the peculiar phenomenon of prices resulting from capitalist competition."
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"Olympics is global competition in which eighty, ninety, hundred, hundred and ten countries participate."
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"We see ourselves as first helping to open up markets to competition."
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"I should have been a much better artist if I could have studied more and amused myself less."
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"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."
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"What was the competition? Well, I remember this Puerto Rican who came out in a short skirt and a gun."
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"Well, it's still another two-day competition, so it's really important to show that you're ready. Every meet is really important right now. You've got to keep showing you can hit."
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"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."
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"In the tail above the giant resonance, you can get not just one neutron emitted but two, three, four or five, and so there are a lot of things one can measure, looking at the competition with the emission of neutrons and protons and so on."
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"Unless a player goes in for intensive play and tournament competition, two racquets are sufficient."
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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?"
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"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."
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"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."
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"Rising amateurs always intimidate falling masters."
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"The Beatles had just come out, and everybody had a band. It was incredible competition out there."
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"You can't get the taste of winning in a running competition with a turtle!"
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"Of all matches never was the like."
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"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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"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."
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"The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living."
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"Where there is competition, one cannot attain (true) 'Knowledge'."
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"If you are a winner by the judgements of few judges and not by your performance, you are not a real winner."
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"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."
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