Quotes about Competition
On the field I'm trying to play for the glory of God but then also I'm trying to give everything I have and win and compete. And so I think more than just winning or losing, I think He cares about where our hearts are when we're playing.
- Tim Tebow
Measure your success by the number of people who envy you.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
Sportsmanship, next to the Church, is the greatest teacher of morals.
- Herbert Hoover
I have never known a concern to make a decided success that did not do good, honest work, and even in these days of the fiercest competition, when everything would seem to be a matter of price, there lies still at the root of great business success the very much more important factor of quality.
- Andrew Carnegie
As I look back on that period now, I realize I had split the company in half, setting up two factions which began to compete fiercely with one another. There was the old guard, including many of the store managers, remaining loyal to Ferold, and the new guard, many of whom owed their jobs to Ron. Pretty soon, everybody began to take sides, lining up behind either Ron or Ferold, who didn't get along at all.
- Sam Walton
I was impressed with the giant Carrefours stores in Brazil, which got me started on a campaign to bring home a concept called Hypermart—giant stores with groceries and general merchandise under one roof.
- Sam Walton
The government competes in the private sector the way an alligator competes with a duck.
- Mike Pence
Antitrust is the way that the government promotes markets when there are market failures. It has nothing to do with the idea of free information.
- Bill Gates
The concept of free competition enforced by law is a grotesque contradiction in terms.
- Ayn Rand
The parties are the gamesters; but government keeps the table, and is sure to be the winner in the end.
- Edmund Burke
There were so many candidates on the platform that there were not enough promises to go around.
- Ronald Reagan
The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.
- Ernest Hemingway