Sayings about Competition
People will ignore their misfortunes and their interests when they are in competition with their pleasures. ~ French Proverb
No dew ever competed with the sun. ~ Zulu Proverb
Competition is the whetstone of talent. ~ Traditional Proverb
Compete, don’t envy. ~ Moroccan Proverbs
The world would not make a racehorse of a donkey. ~ Irish Proverbs
Slow but sure wins the race. ~ Traditional Proverb
On your own donkey it is quicker than on someone else’s racehorse. ~ Yugoslavian Proverb
Quotations about Competition
The person who figures out how to harness the collective genius of his or her organization is going to blow the competition away. ~ Walter Wriston
The ability to learn faster than your competitors may be the only sustainable competitive advantage. ~ Arie de Geus
If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. ~ Marcus Garvey
The reason why men who mind their own business succeed is that they have so little competition. ~ Evan Esar
Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other. ~ Walter Elliot
the collective genius of his or her organization is going to blow the competition away. ~ Walter Wriston
Differentiate your products, provide great service and don’t even think about trying to compete with Wal-Mart on Price. ~ Michael Bergdahl
I just tried to keep my cool and continue with my race plan: to win. ~ Mark Spitz
Competition is in the genes of all living things. Watch a flower compete for its share of sunlight or watch the goldfish in your aquarium. Infants and small children compete without knowing it. Remember how the queen bee wins? Competition is the spice of life and the soul of progress. How else can quality rise to the top? ~ Charles T. Clark
Competition, which is said to be “the life of trade,” when pushed too far, is no less the death of it–and of the soul. ~ Christian Nestell Bovee
You must take the compromise to win, or else nothing. That means: you race or you do not. ~ Ayrton Senna
The biggest things are often the easiest to do because there is so little competition. ~ William Van Horne
It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle. ~ Richard M. DeVos
Competition is a complex thing. It brings out the best and the worst in all participants. It refines the technique and sharpens the mind, body and spirit. ~ Herb Perez
You get out in front — you stay out in front. ~ AJ Foyt
World records are only borrowed. ~ Sebastian Coe
If you can’t win, make the fellow ahead of you break the record. ~ Evan Esar
Up, you mighty race, accomplish what you will. ~ Marcus Garvey
Men often compete with one another until the day they die; comradeship consists of rubbing shoulders jocularly with a competitor. ~ Edward Hoagland
Competitions are for horse, not artist. ~ Bela Bartok
A competitor will find a way to win. Competitors take bad breaks and use them to drive themselves just that much harder. Quitters take bad breaks and use them as reasons to give up. It’s all a matter of pride. ~ Nancy Lopez
When a man can do better than everyone else in the same walk, he does not make any very painful exertions to outdo himself. The progress of improvement ceases nearly at the point where competition ends. ~ William Hazlitt
Competition is for dogs and horses. ~ Geri Halliwell
Competition is warfare. Mostly it is played by prescribed rules–there is a sort of Geneva Convention for competition–but it’s thorough and often brutal. ~ Andrew S. Grove
Although competition is beneficial from a social point of view, individually each of us would prefer to be loosened from its grip. ~ Richard L. Stroup
Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed — there’s so little competition. ~ Elbert Hubbard
Competition means decentralized planning by many separate persons. ~ Friedrich Hayek
The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself. ~ Washington Allston
Competition is a rude yet effective motivation. ~ Toba Beta
Our life is not really a mutual helpfulness; but rather, it’s fair competition cloaked under due laws of war; it’s a mutual hostility. ~ Thomas Carlyle
Competition, in and of itself, is neither good nor bad. If a person or group seeks a desired objective to the exclusion of such higher ethics as truth and fairness, the seeking indeed is unhealthy. However, if a person or group seeks a desired objective while remaining true to high ethical standards, the pursuit will be a healthy growth experience. ~ Philip Solomons
There are two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group because there is less competition there. ~ Indira Gandhi
This dream that men shall cease to waste strength in competition and shall come to pool their powers of production is coming to pass all over the earth. ~ Jane Addams
Competition, founded upon the conflicting interests of individuals, is in reality far less productive of wealth and enterprise than co-operation, involving though it does the constant apparent sacrifice of the individual to the common interests. ~ Robert Hugh Benson
Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity. ~ Daniel Burrus
I feel sorry for those who live without competition … fat, dumb, and unhappy in cradle-to-grave security. ~ Donald M. Kendall
Competition is a process or variety of habitual behavior that grows out of a habit of mind. ~ Willard Beecher
Thank God for competition. When our competitors upset our plans or outdo our designs, they open infinite possibilities of our own work to us. ~ Gil Atkinson
World trade means competition from anywhere; advancing technology encourages cross-industry competition. Consequently, strategic planning must consider who our future competitors will be, not only who is here today. ~ Eric Allison
To free the mind from the habit of competition, we must see in detail the process by which the mind is ensnared by competition. ~ Marguerite Beecher
The price which society pays for the law of competition, like the price it pays for cheap comforts and luxuries, is also great; but the advantages of this law are also greater still, for it is to this law that we owe our wonderful material development, which brings improved conditions in its train. ~ Andrew Carnegie
All dealings among men are a contest in which some will succeed and others fail. And some are failing quite spectacularly. ~ Brandon San
Competition brings out the best in products and the worst in people. ~ David Sarnoff
Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs. ~ Henry Ford
It is better for a woman to compete impersonally in society, as men do, than to compete for dominance in her own home with her husband, compete with her neighbors for empty status, and so smother her son that he cannot compete at all. ~ Betty Friedan
I found that competition was supposed to be a menace and that a good manager circumvented his competitors by getting a monopoly by artificial means. ~ Henry Ford
Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off. ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one. ~ Bill Bradley
Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress. ~ Herbert Hoover
All you have to do is play better than the other guy and things go well. If you don’t play better than the other players then somebody takes your place. Now a lot of guys, in this day and time with the transient nature of the sport, as soon as the competition gets too good, they want out. ~ Bill Parcells
Slow but steady wins the race. ~ Aesop
Competition is the spice of sports; but if you make spice the whole meal you’ll be sick. ~ George Leonard
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