Competition Quotes

Any vigorous competition will entail at least two elements: offense and defense. Offense is the effort you put into scoring against your opponents, and defense is the effort you apply to stop them from scoring against you. Those who suggest that a little healthy competition can't hurt are thinking only of the offense part....The offense component of internal competition is problematic, but the defense component is always injurious. When peer managers play defense against each other (try to stop each other from scoring), they are engaging in anticooperation.

~ Tom Demarco

There is no such thing as healthy competition within a knowledge organization; all internal competition is destructive. The nature of our work is that it cannot be done by any single person in isolation. Knowledge work is by definition collaborative.

~ Tom Demarco

I bet they love those games on Friday night more than they do segregation.

~ Pat Conroy

No one’s life ever goes as they planned. That truth alone should bring a sense of relief to everyone.

~ Andrena Sawyer

Only dead mathematics can be taught where competition prevails: living mathematics must always be a communal possession.

~ Mary Everest Boole

In real life, it is very important to be able to see a tiny difference between need for speed or just want to overtake.

~ Toba Beta

To the consummate competitor, winning is not the same as beating your opponents. Winning is playing to your absolute best; beating others is a corollary effect, not the primary goal.

~ Alisa Melekhina

Winning isn't about finishing in first place. It isn't about beating the others. It is about overcoming yourself. Overcoming your body, your limitations, and your fears. Winning means surpassing yourself and turning your dreams into reality.

~ Kilian Jornet

My grandfather once told me that there are 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 there.

~ Indira Gandhi

CHORONZON: I am a dire wolf, prey-stalking, lethal prowler.MORPHEUS: I am a hunter, horse-mounted, wolf-stabbing.CHORONZON: I am a horsefly, horse-stinging, hunter-throwing.MORPHEUS: I am a spider, fly-consuming, eight legged.CHORONZON: I am a snake, spider-devouring, posion-toothed.MORPHEUS: I am an ox, snake-crushing, heavy-footed.CHORONZON: I am an anthrax, butcher bacterium, warm-life destroying.MORPHEUS: I am a world, space-floating, life-nurturing.CHORONZON: I am a nova, all-exploding... planet-cremating.MORPHEUS: I am the Universe -- all things encompassing, all life embr

~ Neil Gaiman

HERMIAGod speed fair Helena! whither away?HELENACall you me fair? that fair again unsay.Demetrius loves your fair: O happy fair!Your eyes are lode-stars; and your tongue's sweet airMore tuneable than lark to shepherd's ear,When wheat is green, when hawthorn buds appear.Sickness is catching: O, were favour so,Yours would I catch, fair Hermia, ere I go;My ear should catch your voice, my eye your eye,My tongue should catch your tongue's sweet melody.Were the world mine, Demetrius being bated,The rest I'd give to be to you translated.O, teach me how you look, and with what artYou sway the motion of Demetrius' heart.HERMIAI frown upon him, yet he loves me still.HELENAO that your frowns would teach my smiles such skill!HERMIAI give him curses, yet he gives me love.HELENAO that my prayers could such affection move!HERMIAThe more I hate, the more he follows me.HELENAThe more I love, the more he hateth me.HERMIAHis folly, Helena, is no fault of mine.HELENANone, but your beauty: would that fault were mine!

~ William Shakespeare

Is the competition really some mythical beast? No, not really. Knowing how to play your group of salespeople as a team, to overcome the group objective of winning the customers support, is the objective. The opposing team in proper viewpoint is not just the similar competing business to yours. Nor is it the competing franchises of your home office.No, in order to really be effective in the market place as a surviving business, you must go beyond that philosophy. You must be willing to expand your viewpoint to fully understand who the competition truly is. Your true competition is simply this: Anywhere that your customer would spend his or her dollars as opposed to spending them at your company or place of business.

~ Michael Delaware

Resorting to lying or cheating in any competition amounts to conceding defeat.

~ George Hammond

Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.

~ Henry Ford

In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.

~ Victor Kiam

To thrive, all businesses must focus on the art of self-disruption. Rather than wait for the competition to steal your business, every founder and employee needs to be willing to cannibalize their existing revenue streams in order to create new ones. All disruption starts with introspection.

~ Jay Samit

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.

~ Andrew Carnegie

A merchant who approaches business with the idea of serving the public well has nothing to fear from the competition.

~ James Cash Penney

Athletic competition clearly defines the unique power of our attitude.

~ Bart Starr

Be loyal to those who are loyal to you. And respect everyone, even your enemies and competition.

~ John Cena

I think it is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. Since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition. In fact, there are so few people this crazy that I feel like I know them all by first name.

~ Larry Page

I have five boys in the family, and it's constant competition, sport, humor, and practical jokes.

~ Mitt Romney

I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.

~ Fidel Castro

The Internet is just bringing all kinds of information into the home. There's just a lot of distraction, a lot of competition for the parent's voice to resonate in the children's ears.

~ Phil Mcgraw

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.

~ Janet Jackson

Competition is great. And as long as it's friendly and not a malicious thing, then I think it's cool.

~ Janet Jackson

Number one, cash is king... number two, communicate... number three, buy or bury the competition.

~ Jack Welch

The world of sports knows no religious, racial or political differences. Athletes, from whatever land they come, speak the same language. The lessons of competition are lessons for life.

~ Robert Kennedy

I think exercise tests us in so many ways, our skills, our hearts, our ability to bounce back after setbacks. This is the inner beauty of sports and competition, and it can serve us all well as adult athletes.

~ Peggy Fleming

I'm a football fan, a sports fan, a fan of competition.

~ Matthew Mcconaughey

If the presidential nominating process were an international sports competition, one would assume that top officials of both parties were taking envelopes of cash from town chairs in Durham and precinct captains in Waterloo.

~ George Packer

Americans' addiction to sports, with the NFL at the top, is based on the excitement generated by the potential for the unexpected great play which can only happen with honest competition from great athletes.

~ Arlen Specter

Because I just like sports, I like athletics and I like competition.

~ Trishelle Cannatella

My commitment to Atlanta and passion for sports and competition make this acquisition a perfect fit for me.

~ Arthur Blank

Why should man's first flight to the moon be a matter of national competition? Why should the United States and the Soviet Union, in preparing for such expeditions, become involved in immense duplications of research, construction and expenditure?

~ John F. Kennedy

The denominational world tries to pressure its members to focus on the birth of Christ, but in doing so layers of guilt are imposed, and competition gets complicated as one Christmas program tries to outdo the other.

~ John Clayton

Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed - there's so little competition.

~ Elbert Hubbard

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.

~ Indira Gandhi

I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it.

~ Walt Disney

I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of young writers, people in all media, want to be famous but they don't really want to do anything. I can't think of anything less worth striving for than fame.

~ Zadie Smith