Quotes on Competition

When people, land, and community are as one, all three members prosper; when they relate not as members but as competing interests, all three are exploited. By consulting Nature as the source and measure of that membership, The Land Institute seeks to develop an agriculture that will save soil from being lost or poisoned while promoting a community life at once prosperous and enduring.

Love is co-operation rather than competition.

The desire of businessmen for profits is what drives prices down unless forcibly prevented from engaging in price competition, usually by governmental activity.

Competition brings out the best in products and the worst in people

I'm playing against great players, playing against the best in the world. The competition-that's what I've always wanted.

When the game is over I just want to look at myself in the mirror, win or lose, and know I gave it everything I had.

The rare individuals who unselfishly try to serve others have an enormous advantage-they have little competition.

Black women are programmed to define ourselves within this male attention and to compete with each other for it rather than to recognize and move upon our common interests.

It's my experience that people rise to the level of their own expectations and of the competition they seek out.

Most of your competition spend their days looking forward to those rare moments when everything goes right. Imagine how much leverage you have if you spend your time maximizing those common moments when it doesn't.

Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.

I just feel that my competitive drive is far greater than anyone else that I've met, and I think that I thrive on that.

A good martial artist does not become tense, but ready. Not thinking, yet not dreaming. Ready for whatever may come. When the opponent expands, I contract; and when he contracts, I expand. And when there is an opportunity, "I" do not hit, "it" hits all by itself.

You might not be able to outthink, outmarket or outspend your competition, but you can outwork them.

This crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated into the student, who is trained to worship acquisitive success as a preparation for his future.

The problem of freedom in America is that of maintaining a competition of ideas, and you do not achieve that by silencing one brand of idea.

Acting is not a competition; everything must be done for the good of the film or else everybody loses.

You're not in competition with other women. You're in competition with everyone.

Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.

We will always meet rivals in everything we do, but the most dangerous are those we believe to be our friends.

There is an efficiency inspired by love which goes far beyond and is much greater than the efficiency of ambition; and without love, which brings an integrated understanding of life, efficiency breeds ruthlessness.