Competition Quotes

Everyday that I procrastinate, everyday that I sit stagnant in fear, everyday that I fail to better myself, someone else out there with the same goals and dreams as me is doing the exact opposite.

~ Noel Dejesus

Homo economicus was surreptitiously taken as the emblem and analogue for all living beings. A mechanistic anthropomorphism has gained currency. Bacteria are imagined to mimic economic behavior and to engage in internecine competition for the scarce oxygen available in their environment. A cosmic struggle among ever more complex forms of life has become the anthropic foundational myth of the scientific age.

~ Ivan Illich

In each case, the relative cost of postponing the purchase for buyer and seller determines the intensity of competition between the [past and future] selves of the seller. If the buyer has a lower cost of postponing the purchase (delay, making do with an interior model) than the seller (inventory, staff salaries) the buyer has the bargaining power.

~ Rakesh V. Vohra

Be careful... any time you find yourself defining the winner as someone other than the agent who is currently smiling from on top of a giant heap of utility.

~ Eliezer Yudkowsky

Be careful... any time you find yourself defining the winner as someone other than the agent who is currently smiling from on top of a giant heap of utility

~ Eliezer Yudkowsky

Today I will work when others procrastinate, I will confront my fears when others hide from theirs, and I will create solutions when others find excuses; today I refuse to allow my enemies to out work me.

~ Noel Dejesus

Angelina, I think of you as my friend, the dearest of friends, and it tortures me to go against you, but now is the time to stand with the slave. The time will come for us to take up the woman question, but not yet.The time to assert one's right is when it's denied!

~ Sue Monk Kidd

When you walk in distinction, you don’t compete with anyone but competition wants to compete with you.

~ Onyi Anyado

...if the verses are for a literary competition, your grace should try to win second place; first is always won through favor or because of the high estate of the person, second is won because of pure justice, and by this calculation third becomes second, and the first becomes third...

~ Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

The last goose in the column is flying just as high.

~ Marty Rubin

Complacency traps people and besiege them until longer period. The biggest challenge is to become aware of its existence and stepping out of it quickly.

~ Ashish Patel

It did not occur to Adya that like being competitive during exam times, while being competitive in matters of life also the boys would actually tend to ditch their female counterparts in little little matters and get things their way.

~ Anuradha Bhattacharyya

If you choose to be fearless, then be fearlessly authentic not an imitation of someone you envy.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Insecure people only eclipse your sun because they’re jealous of your daylight and tired of their dark, starless nights.

~ Shannon L. Alder

#Cats are marvelous creatures - they either adapt to circumstances, or decide to make circumstances adapt to them. Either way - they win.

~ Will Advise

Moderate giftedness has been made worthless by the printing press and radio and television and satellites and all that. A moderately gifted person who would have been a community treasure a thousand years ago has to give up, has to go into some other line of work, since modern communications put him or her into daily competition with nothing but the world's champions.

~ Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

To succeed in this competition means finding yourself in a place where you call the shots and gets the gain. This is not an easy feat, unless you are born into it. if you are not, you will need to out-smart your equals. You need to be more ambitious than they are. You need to work harder. You need to look better and smarter. You need to justify why it should be you and not them. It’s a competition.

~ Emi Iyalla

That competition and the struggle for existence is the mechanism behind this state of perpetual change.

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

It is not important how many competitions you have attended, it only matters how many you have won.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

I don’t think writers compete, I think they’re all doing separate things in their own style.

~ Elmore Leonard

Jealousy is love in competition.

~ Toba Beta

Instead of playing to win, I was playing not to lose. It reminds me of the story I once heard about two friends being chased by a bear, when one turned to the other and said, I just realized that I don't need to outrun the bear; I only need to outrun you.

~ Sean Covey

If you just can’t get rid of envy, then start creating a life, so that if you saw yourself from afar, you’d be envious of you.

~ Charles F. Glassman

Imitation is the highest form of flattery. Try not to see it as an invitation to compete.

~ Andrena Sawyer

He had a simple maxim for all competitive or adversarial situations: work out what the other party least wants you to do, and then do it. Relieving your feelings was fun, but the best course of action was to make things as difficult as possible for the person trying to make things difficult for you.

~ John Lanchester

Understanding industry structure is also essential to effective strategic positioning P. 26

~ Michael E. Porter

Understanding the competitive forces, and their underlying causes, reveals the roots of an industry’s current profitability while providing a framework for anticipating and influencing competition (and profitability) over time. P. 26

~ Michael E. Porter

The strongest competitive force or forces determine the profitability of an industry and become the most important to strategy formulation. The most salient force, however, is not always obvious. P. 26

~ Michael E. Porter

If the forces are intense, (..) almost no company earns attractive returns on investment.If the forces are benign, (..) many companies are profitable. P. 25

~ Michael E. Porter

What distinguishes a true competitor from a mere participant is that the competitor derives enjoyment from the nature of the competition aside from the prize at the end. She gets a rush from the gaming dynamics and appreciates the beauty of the game. At the end of the day, you play for the love of the game or not at all.

~ Alisa Melekhina

In essence, the job of the strategist is to understand and cope with competition. P. 25

~ Michael E. Porter

Competitive forces = the underlying drivers of profitability P.25

~ Michael E. Porter

Strategy is about out-thinking your competition. Mark Zuckerberg, while at Harvard, built a website called Facemash ‘for fun’. Even today, Facebook believe that ‘done is better than perfect’.

~ Max Mckeown

Competition is not about fighting, it is all about helping each other to achieve a common goal.

~ Joey Lawsin

Your reciept is your library card. -- On what killed the brick and mortar bookstores.

~ Michael P. Naughton

The smart business person sees an opportunity to generate referrals by collaborating with their competitors.

~ Timothy M. Houston

I don't consider those competitions fair where judges get to decide the winner, because selected judges quite often are not worthy or qualified enough to make the right decision.

~ Amit Kalantri

If you are a winner by the judgements of few judges and not by your performance, you are not a real winner.

~ Amit Kalantri

[S]elfish members win within groups, but groups of altruists best groups of selfish members. (63)

~ Edward O. Wilson

To some life is a complaint, to some it is a competition and to some it is a conquest.

~ Amit Kalantri