Quotes about Competition

But differentiation loses its meaning when the features and functionality have exceeded what the market demands.

Established firms attempt to push the technology into their established markets, while the successful entrants find a new market that values the technology.

There is too much unhappiness in football, no?

Are we a nation that educates the world's best and brightest in our universities, only to send them home to create businesses in countries that compete against us? Or are we a nation that encourages them to stay and create jobs, businesses, and industries right here in America?

I never, ever, had a person who could come up with the name of a person who could not get a job because an illegal immigrant had stepped in front of them, because it was either a job that person didn't want to do or didn't exist.

The race is short between the cradle and the grave!

Every effect that one produces gives one an enemy. To be popular one must be a mediocrity.

Time is jealous of you, and wars against your lilies and your roses.

Yes there were two great groups of dogs wrangling for the bitching-goddess: the group of the flatterers, those who offered her amusement, stories, films, plays: and the other, much less showy, much more savage breed, those who gave her meat, the real substance of money. The well-groomed showy dogs of amusement wrangled and snarled among themselves for the favors of the bitch-goddess. But it was nothing to the silent fight-to-the-death that went on among the indispensables, the bone-bringers.

That is what every successful person loves: the game. The chance for self-expression. The chance to prove his or her worth, to excel, to win.

way to get things done," says Schwab, "is to stimulate competition.

Rats and roaches live by competition under the law of supply and demand; it is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy. It is impossible not to notice how little the proponents of the ideal of competition have to say about honesty, which is the fundamental economic virtue, and how very little they have to say about community, compassion, and mutual help.